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That's not Twitter's job. There are people who are supposed to do this.
by HumblyTossed 6y ago
That's not Twitter's job. There are people who are supposed to do this.
- colinmorelli 6y agoWhen you have become one of the de-facto news sources for a sizable portion of the population, it does sort of become your job. Whether it’s good that they have become a news source or not is a valid question. But right now, they are, and I think preserving the president’s tweets seems like a pretty easily defensible decision. Even if it is also (or primarily) motivated by their own business interests.
- austincheney 6y agoDo you need Twitter to preserve the words of the President, though? Rephrasing, can the President’s words be preserved just as well without Twitter? If the answer is yes then Twitter isn’t performing the civil service it claims as it is not an archival medium.