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Twitter is a non-government owned software platform. It makes no sense to use it for exclusive official communications. Because, as we've seen, they can close a
by hooande 6y ago
Twitter is a non-government owned software platform. It makes no sense to use it for exclusive official communications. Because, as we've seen, they can close any account at any time. even the us president
Trump in particular basing his presidency around twitter was super stupid. He could have and still can post anything he wants to trump.com, and it will be widely distributed on social media immediately
I'm always hesitant to base any major endeavor on a software platform that someone else owns. because...they own it. They can do whatever they want with their property
- temp8964 6y agoWouldn't the hosting company take down his server?
- gbear605 6y agoPresumably Trump can afford to pay for a few servers. They could even be colocated.
- chrisseaton 6y agoUltimately however you connect to the internet it’s via someone else who can choose to cut you off.
- webmaven 6y ago> Twitter is a non-government owned software platform. It makes no sense to use it for exclusive official communications. Because, as we've seen, they can close any account at any time. even the us president There is nothing that requires official communications on Twitter to be exclusive to that platform.