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Something that isn't being talked about anymore: Trump chose twitter. He chose to stay on it, to use his personal account, to use it as his primary method of co
by scrollaway 6y ago
Something that isn't being talked about anymore: Trump chose twitter. He chose to stay on it, to use his personal account, to use it as his primary method of communication.
US presidents have the biggest, loudest loudspeakers available at their fingertips. Obama's administration had a whole protocol about how to use Twitter as one of their official comms medium and not have it be a de facto one. Biden is so far following it.
Trump brought this on himself. (And btw, you can believe this, AND believe the ban is a good thing, AND believe twitter and media companies have too much power. These things are consistent)
- umvi 6y agoYeah, Trump should have used whitehouse.gov to share his thoughts, and if people want to follow they can use a whitehouse.gov RSS feed or whatever.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoIt's illegal to delete the official public record. That's why he stuck to his personal account.
- scrollaway 6y agoSomehow, most other elected officials manage just fine. Trump had even more potential reach. He chose to put all this power in Twitter's hands. Y'all should be thankful this failed authoritarian was so incompetent.
- kumarvvr 6y agoYup. I blame Twitter too. They are too greedy. Just when their platform was receiving flak for not being profitable, trump comes on and they let him on because it was good business. Now that he is out of power, revenue from his enabling dwindles fast and criticism increases, so the business decision is to ban him.
- sk5t 6y agoThis is a very naive take. Millions of Trumpers still want to engage with him on Twitter. The business equation hasn't changed.
- kumarvvr 6y agoMillions of trumpers engaging with him brings a lot less revenue than hundreds of millions of view of his one tweet. It's all about advertising revenue and profits.
- scrollaway 6y agoI don't think that's fair. Twitter was not in an enviable position from the get go. Trump had been on there for years before he ran for president, and banning the president IS a big deal no matter how you spin it. There is some grey area that was definitely crossed the last few years where banning him from twitter would have been the right thing to do. It was long before Jan 6th but i don't think it was so early in his term either. What's done is done, I'm just glad it's over now tbh.
- postalrat 6y agoTwitter doesn't have too much power. I think that will become clear over the next couple years.
- scrollaway 6y agoTwitter has an insane amount of power. They are just choosing to use very little of it. Replace Dorsey with Murdoch for a day and tell me twitter doesn't have too much power.