Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) 310
Twitter did not add any new users in Q2, a disappointing follow-up to what had been a promising start to 2017. Twitter reported earnings Thursday morning, claiming 328 million total users -- the same number it reported after Q1. Analysts had been hoping the company would add around four million new users last quarter. From a report: Despite its appeal among celebrities and public figures, Twitter has struggled to sustain its closely watched user growth even as it invests in features and live content to help draw viewers and boost user engagement. It is in stiff competition for advertising dollars with other platforms like larger rival Facebook and Snap's messaging app Snapchat. The company also reported a wider quarterly net loss and lower revenue, and said it did not expect its total revenue growth to pick up in the second half of the year. [...] President Donald Trump, one of the most active politicians on Twitter, has tweeted multiple times a day on average since his inauguration in January, according to social media analytics company Zoomph.
And nothing of value was lost... (Score:2)
Twitter is a perfect digital representation of what an empty head sounds like when it rattles.
I'll take this opportunity to point out that this post would make a good tweet.
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I disagree. Twitter was great for its time: Text out comments in 140 character or less from my candy bar phone. As times changed Twitter really didn't. Then instead of dealing with spammers and bullies they shut down their API's and made things harder for long time users.
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I might use Twitter if there was a client that was pleasant to use. I find it difficult to navigate using the stock app, and every time a good third party app comes out they seem to shut it down to avoid competition. If I want to read the president's tweets I just google "donald trump twitter" and most of the time someone has already summarized that day's outbursts along with relevant responses from the groups he had targeted that day -- no need to dig in and read the raw data.
I have a twitter acco
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.@Twitter Perfect digital rep of empty head sounds like when it rattles. Ill take this op2nity 2 point out ths post would make a good tweet.
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Sad
I'm five of them (Score:2)
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1) My real name
2) One of my interests
3) My LLC
4) Another one of my interests
5) Test account for API stuff
Sounds like a symptom (Score:4, Interesting)
Sounds like people don't want to be on a platform with that idiot taking center stage.
It's almost as if Twitter's brand is tainted. (Score:5, Insightful)
TFA trolling (Score:2)
Trump has little to do with Twitter's growth or decline, or lack of either. Twitter as you state is tainted, but not just by celebrity types. Censorship has probably as much to do with the lack of growth, and the surge of competing products vowing not to censor.
Twitter seems to be a big deal with media agencies who watch each others tweets, celebrities that follow each other, bots who don't care who they spam, and bot makers who think people are still actively joining in. Yeah yeah, some people follow th
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Doesn't really make sense because you only see stuff from people you follow on your Twitter feed. Okay, they might re-tweet stuff from others, but presumably you follow them because they have similar taste or post interesting stuff.
I find Twitter has a lot less random bullshit than Facebook, for example. And the people I follow post interesting stuff.
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I think it's a screem they haven't caught on. (Score:2)
I think it's a scream that they haven't YET caught on to one of the things Trump is doing with it.
His tweets aren't JUST about getting to his supporters unfiltered by the lamestream media. (Most of his supporters don't follow them. There are other ways for him to get the word out that doesn't have the same set of gatekeepers.)
Every time he wants to get something done without the
What's the *need* for Twitter? (Score:5, Insightful)
None of my family or friends tweet anything that I care about, and celebrities, "journalists" and partisan zealots hold no interest for me...
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For 99.9% of it is just noise. However in an emergency situation it's an easy way to disperse information.
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Indeed, in "happening right now" news, there is no better source. Anything else... meh.
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There is something to be said about Twitter and news when old school news media run entire segments based on tweets. The more I think about it the more it sounds like the plot of a bad middle school dystopian story.
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There is something to be said about Twitter and news when old school news media run entire segments based on tweets. The more I think about it the more it sounds like the plot of a bad middle school dystopian story.
They do that because it's cheap. A lot cheaper to post items about tweets and youtube videos than to do some actual reporting.
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Agreed and still very depressing.
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SMS has 20 more characters, and works even on flip phones.
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Right but 20 chars were reserved for the user name so you could send tweets over SMS and know where they came from.
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Why in the world do you want to repeal the 17th Amendment? (Unless you're a Poe, in which case: good job!!)
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Because the Senate should not be a damned popularity contest. We have the House for that. House elections are very local though. So constituents can easy get to the rep, and force them to answer real questions and maybe just maybe primary them when required. You might not like the makeup of the House or maybe you do but at least they can enact legislation, and function as a parliamentary body.
The Senate by contrast is entirely disfunctional. Does not matter which party has the majority. Its been comp
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Because the Senate represents the interests of the States not the people. They have longer terms and equal power regardless of the population they represent. When the constitution was drafted one of the concerns was "excessive democracy" as James Madison put it. The idea was that people were fickle and the Senate would be stable compared to the whims of popular passions dominating the House. Considering how people act today when they 'lose' it's easy to see that people let their passions get the better of t
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The problem with that is that it requires you to know the people you want to communicate with.
Say I know a family member is at an event and I hear a tornado hits it, there's an earthquake, fire, terrorist attack or other massive event. I may not be able to get through to the people I do know there and I probably won't know the people that are trying to get information out.
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I remember hearing some years back that tweet propagated faster than an earthquake. And some quick googling found a source. [washingtonpost.com]
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The county where I live sends text messages as severe weather alerts.
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Re:What's the *need* for Twitter? (Score:4)
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The Appaling Founding of Twitter... (Score:3)
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Let me guess: you'll frame your 30 clicks a day on your shitty blog as being more successful than Twitter, right?
That's 30+ clicks to my blog and another 30+ clicks to my author website from Slashdot per day. Thank you for your support.
Jack Dorsey is worth two billion dollars.
You mean the founder who kicked out the founder who thought up the idea for Twitter, who later got kicked out as CEO, and came back to Twitter as CEO with a Steve Jobs complex? Yeah, a total douche bag.
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Not sure what that book has to do with recent stagnate growth.
Twitter was an accident. The founders were more interested in being CEO for their own benefit. They burned through years of investors' money before they got around to figuring out a revenue model. And they can't even take advantage of a tweet-prone POTUS who makes headline daily. Unbelievable.
twooter! (Score:2)
I just don't get Twitter (Score:2)
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if you want news sources that just wildly agree with you and put together an echo chamber, news is one of the easiest things to get from many sources and methods, I don't need Twitter for that.
Your parent is right.
You don't grasp the difference between your way of 'reading news' and twitter.
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I briefly contemplated signing up just so i could berate companies publicly for poor customer service. Companies REALLY respond to twitter complaints, often sending free stuff to make up for slights or percieved slights. I know my company does. Like people bending over backwards to make an issue go away. If its on social media, the marketing department is on everyones ass to fix the problem with a level of urgency that phone-in customer complaints never get.
From that point, i'd say it does serve as a useful
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I rarely use the app or web site, I get the tweets delivered to me by text message.
Yes, it's "fluff", and the other subthread doesn't care about celebrities (which doesn't ONLY mean TV/movie people).. But I do think it's interesting to read bits of info (whether it's their opinion about something, factoids, or just links to other articles I may have missed) from people as varied as pro poker players to scientists (Neil Degrasse Tyson) to breaking news (CNN), etc..
I have text message noises/notifications tu
Possibly Useful (Score:2)
There's also the banning (Score:4, Insightful)
There's also Gab.ai [slashdot.org], which has sprung up in response to complaints about one-sided censorship by the company.
Gab has a much more elegant solution to censorship: if you don't like something, put it on your personal list of "things I don't want to see", and you'll never see those. You can specify users or specific words you don't like.
Compare with Twitter, where you can complain about something being in violation of their rules of conduct for partisan reasons... and most likely it'll get banned.
Lots and lots of people are moving over to gab once they've been banned at twitter.
Usually with a screenshot of their *completely reasonable* post that got them banned.
(Even Scott Adams gets banned and shadow-banned - for nothing more than questioning the science behind global warming. It's almost as if the science behind global warming can't stand up to scrutiny!)
(Several of the recent bannings are for supporting the military trans' ban decision. Almost as if no one is allowed to debate that issue!)
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Even Scott Adams gets banned and shadow-banned
So he claimed, but it seems pretty doubtful. So some small, random selection of his posts didn't show up. It's not like Twitter is using ACID storage and he's a know nutbag.
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The problem with Gab is that it's filtering doesn't deal with most important use cases.
You can block users and keywords. How does that help you when a mob is coming at you, or a troll keeps making new accounts? How does it help when someone doxxes you?
Some people like 4chan, but at least on there most posts are anonymous. On Gab your account gives the trolls a target.
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This probably isn't the right venue to discuss your sexual fantasies, especially with respect to the particular kind of marital aid you prefer.
Bots went home (Score:3)
Election season is over. US, UK and France have all held their elections. Maybe there isn't anything for the bots to retweet and talk about any more.
Solution is at the beginning of TFA (Score:2)
So modify the product so it appeals to people other than celebrities and public figures. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple didn't become rich by tailoring their products to 1/10th of the 1%. The companies which make lots of money off tiny markets like celebrities and public figures sell very specialized and expensive products. e.g. Limousines. So Twitter needs to decide if they
Na na na na say'eh goodbye (Score:3)
Kinda want to see Twitter go down because as rule social media is kinda dumb. If Twitter falls it will shake investors faith in other platforms. Might be a nice domino effect. Really hopeful something like this could take the wind out of facebooks sails some before Mark succeeds in politically weaponizing. Which will be somewhat hard for him to do thanks to all the hard working cleaver trolls out there but its not impossible.
If the investors could all get spooked and run off first, that would be great.
Attribution (Score:5, Interesting)
"A report" is not a good enough source. The quote is not attributed. Where was it copied/pasted from? I'm not talking about the link inside the quote, but the quote itself. Who wrote it?
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TFA: "Analysts were expecting 328.8 million, according to financial data and analytics firm FactSet."
You failed to see that I specifically said I wasn't talking about the linked article, but the quoted text on Slashdot. Who wrote it, where?
Twitter is not modernizing fast enough (Score:2)
* The 140 character limit is just plain silly anymore
* They don't have a solid version of more modern apps like SnapChat or WhatsApp.
* Better flow control / Better lists - If you subscribe more then 3-4 big feeds forget seeing anything substantial. Some news site pride themselves on putting out a store or comment every minute. You can use lists but they've become so clunky. Give me something like Facebook that lets me switch between more viewed and the whole steam
* Open the API up again - You killed off
Trump may be slowing the slide (Score:2)
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I think a lot of people like the drama. Same reason why reality TV was so popular but instead of watching vicariously you can directly participate in all the glorious E-drama you can handle. It's the only thing that makes sense to me why someone would stay on Twitter.
Well, maybe there are a few good handles to follow but those seem few and far between.
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I don't think it's the drama, so much as it allows Trump's supporters to believe they're plugged into him. These tweets seem pretty mad to most people, but the impression I get is that the supporters look upon them almost as personal messages, propagating the illusion that somehow Trump is fighting for the little guy and cutting all them nasty elites out of the loop. There's a sort of crude brilliance to the Twitter strategy, at least so far as keeping the base onboard. Of course, the other sixty percent of
Market saturation (Score:3)
Assuming this data [statista.com] is accurate, Twitter's user base seems to have hit market saturation sometime around the start of 2015. The service has remained pretty much the same since they began it, so why would anyone expect that there are suddenly more people who aren't using Twitter that have decided that they want to use it? There was a significant uptick in the first quarter of this year (possibly attributable to Twitter being Trump's medium of choice), but anyone who thought that was sustainable growth was crazy.
Zero *net* new users (Score:2)
I really doubt no one signed up for Twitter in the past three months. They just had as many users quit as joined.
No thanks. (Score:5, Interesting)
I wanted to open an account to follow some people whose work I'm interested in.
An hour after creating the account, having done nothing with it, It's been locked and I've been told that it looks like I'm a bot registering multiple accounts and the only way to unlock it is to authenticate though my phone number.
So I wrote to support that it seems like a pretty scammy way to get my phone number, and I'd be happy to talk to them, but I'm not interested in handing out that sort of information.
Never heard back from them.
Twitter, what is it good for? (Score:2)
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
Oh, twitter, I despise
'Cause it means destruction of innocent minds
Twitter means tears to thousands of American eyes
Where the president* goes and lies
And despised, truth dies
I said Twitter, huh good god, why'all
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing, say it again
*president, so called
I asked my sister (Score:2)
I asked my neighbor lady if she loaded up twitter to follow President Trump.
Her answer: "If I wanted to listen to a fat, arrogant, crazy old man, I wouldn't have gotten a divorce."
Censorship, sjw witch hunts (Score:2)
Stopped using it due to these things. Reached a point where my opinion was likely going to cause people to start screeching if I was honest, so between Twitter censoring what I saw and self censoring myself to keep the peace, I'm very very glad I left.
It's just a total political whine great now and a circle jerk off let's feel good for whatever reason today stuff.
Shame, the breaking news was quite useful.
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Whine fest, even.
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Twitter died when it appointed a "trust and safety council".
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Twitter isn't sustainable in its current form, but it's too popular with media outlets and customer service departments to be a financial dead-end.
There is a way to make it profitable, just not doing what they're currently doing. Perhaps making corporations and verified people pay a small fee to stay verified? I don't know, but as much as it is a media darling, there is a value there, it just needs to be unlocked.
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There is a way to make it profitable, just not doing what they're currently doing. Perhaps making corporations and verified people pay a small fee to stay verified? I don't know, but as much as it is a media darling, there is a value there, it just needs to be unlocked.
On average, Twitter loses $100 million every quarter, which is completely insane. Part of the problem is having 3,000+ employees when they could easily run the business with less than 300. But still, there just simply is no "value to be unlocked".
If there was a way for Twiiter to be profitable, they would have found it by now. This idea of "there's a magic answer out there somewhere, we just have to find it" is complete bullshit.
Sure, it's popular among the brain-dead, but as an ongoing business, it's ju
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but it's too popular with media outlets and customer service departments to be a financial dead-end.
So was myspace. Twitter isnt going to be gone tomorrow but if they start making the changes required to monetize it effectively people may slowly leave or decide not to bother.
What Twitter needs to probably do is, a heck of a lot less. Don't police it, fire everyone but a core team of developers host everything in the could. Keep it mostly text and allow third party hosting of images, and other content to keep the bandwidth costs down. It will earn plenty of ad revenue to keep Jack and some core people
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As a fun aside, it seems to me that the only thing in nature that is either growing or dying (as in, not biologically successful if it ceases growing) is cancer.
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I don't know, pretty much everything plant or animal is always growing and dying. Its just a few cells here and few cells there at a time. Pretty much when new stuff quits growing the organism as a whole dies eventually.
Cancer is really just an unsustainable growth rate.
In the case of Twitter, you need to add people at some rate because the older accounts might not be closed but they are as good as dead. The less their owners use them, the few page views the less the ad revenue generated. Twitter either
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As a fun aside, it seems to me that the only thing in nature that is either growing or dying (as in, not biologically successful if it ceases growing) is cancer.
How is cancer not biologically successful per your definition? Especially the 15% of human cancers that are caused by viruses [nih.gov]. So what if it kills a host, it just moves on to another ...
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I think that the Trumpster is a good example of what's wrong with Twitter. It's a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid Internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. Every time he posts, you get a new pile of retweets and replies that meet all of the criteria that I just stated.
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It works the other way round too Twitter is a good example of what is wrong with the Trumpster. The Trumpster being on Twitter more or less proves that his head is full of a mish mosh of bad jokes, stupid internet memes, shameless self promotion, and political ranting. No wonder he tweets in his lunch break to ban LBGT from the military without a single thought about what to do with the 2500 who are already in it. The man sadly is a moronic cretin who barely has the intellect to function as the president. I
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i am still considering leaving the nation.
No you fucking aren't. Either shit or get off the pot.
What, are you holding out for "change" (your preferred party winning) in the midterm elections? I mean, that's just a little over a year away!
And if that doesn't pan out, well, it'll've been been 2 years. Surely the investigators are about to open the flood gates on info that will get the President impeached, and if not, you're about half way through their reign. Might as well stick it out and "make a difference" in the following Presidential election, right?
Quit kidding yourself. You're not leaving. And the President, however much of a buffoon and ass they may be, has very little impact on your day to day life. It's congress that you need to flush down the drain, yet none of you give a shit about midterm elections. You just want to whine and bitch and moan and blame someone for something, as long as you're not blaming yourself or your preferred party.
The above applies to all politards of all parties.
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That's not a problem if you ask me. Pinterest, on the other hand, requires one to see stuff and it annoys me to no end to see pinterest results in my google image searches. And sometimes the only four results are all from pinterest, as if there's no other source for the image. I'm confused.
As a moderate, I got tired of smug leftists. (Score:5, Insightful)
Politically, I'm a moderate or a centrist. I prefer to take the best ideas of the political right and the best ideas of the political left, rather than sticking myself at one extreme or the other. I'm open to immigration. I want all people to succeed, regardless of their skin color or origin or other attributes. I think healthcare should be affordable and accessible to all. I don't want to see prejudice and hatred.
As a moderate, I used to follow a huge variety of Twitterers. Some were political, some were quite apolitical. I was seeing a huge range of viewpoints, which I really liked. All was good for several years, but then I found things were getting more and more polarized.
It started off relatively mildly, with occasional tweets about Black Lives Matter or sexism or something like that. What started as a trickle soon became a deluge. It got to the point where tweet after tweet was about some kind of -ism or -phobia.
Like I said earlier, I'm open minded, so I started looking into some of the cases that were mentioned in these tweets. Time and time again the incidents mentioned in the tweets relating to BLM ended up involving somebody who actually did violently attack the police, and the police responded with deadly force in self defense. The same would happen when I looked into the cases allegedly involving some sort of -ism or -phobia. The situation would either turn out to be totally overblown, or in some cases it was later revealed that the "incident" being described was nothing but a total fabrication!
Interestingly, I didn't see this happening so much from the Twitterers I'd subscribed to who I'd place on the political right. Their tweets were much more relevant, and when I investigated them further it turned out that what they were saying actually matched reality. They weren't blowing minor incidents out of proportion, for example.
Then the 2016 US election really started heating up. Things got really bad after President Trump won the election. Soon I was deluged with endless tweets droning on about "Drumpf", or cartoons making fun of him for allegedly having orange skin, or snide comments mocking his hairdo. I found it all kind of strange, since leftists are the ones who typically say that bullying and ridiculing people is wrong, especially if it involves their skin color or some other physical attribute they can't control.
The tweets from people who I'd consider to be "right wing" ended up being far more reasonable most of the time. They'd be focusing on real issues, like the economy, border security, and international relations. They wouldn't just be slinging insults. They'd be trying to engage in real discussion, yet most of the replies to their tweets would be petty insults from leftists.
It was getting to the point where for every useful tweet I saw, I'd have to put up with 30 or more pointless tweets filled with petty insults or complaints about non-issues from leftists. Recently it got to the point where I just couldn't put up with it any more. The signal to noise ratio became terrible.
All I wanted was to read were reasonable and intelligent comments questioning the policies and actions of the new US administration. But all I was getting were tweets from leftists about "Drumpf" and "orange skin" and "bad hair" and "intolerance" and "racism" and "transphobia".
So I've quit using Twitter. It stopped providing me with useful content, so I stopped using it. I regret having to do this, as the tweets I was getting from so-called "right wing" Twitterers were typically quite reasonable. It was all of the increasingly nonsensical, negative, and detached-from-reality tweets from leftists that ruined the Twitter experience for me.
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I've quit using Twitter. It stopped providing me with useful content, so I stopped using it. I regret having to do this, as the tweets I was getting from so-called "right wing" Twitterers were typically quite reasonable. It was all of the increasingly nonsensical, negative, and detached-from-reality tweets from leftists that ruined the Twitter experience for me.
You know you can tune what you see, right? If you follow loonies, you see loony tweets. I follow 2 accounts, both DJT. These often do not qualify as "quite reasonable right wing" tweets. In fact, they're often loony. I still follow them because they sometimes become national policy. The quality of the posts you were seeing almost certainly trends with the individuals you picked to follow regardless of their political inclinations.
Or, maybe the only "reasonable" tweets were the ones you agreed with. In which
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The recent tweets from President Trump about transsexuals in the military are a great example. Let's take this one in particular [twitter.com]. It very reasonably explains the rationale for his decision. Cost and disruption are important factors to consider with any decision. In terms of its presentation, it is well-written, legible, and presidential.
Now look at the replies to that tweet. The ones I'm seeing include comments like:
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I suppose it could be that idiots tweets draw idiot tweeted responses. When the president of the US is tweeting nasty, derogatory flamebait, he's going to get nasty, derogatory tweets right back at him.
This is exactly why we expect a leader to lead with dignity. If he tweets crap, he's got a whole audience that is right at that level that otherwise wouldn't respond. He is getting exactly what he is asking for, he enjoys it apparently. The feeling across the world, right or wrong, is that by sending h
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Again, you can tune what you see. When I use Twitter, I see none of these comments. Apparently they interest you. DJT inspires trolls - You're surprised? It's not a reflection on all things left any more than racists trolling minorities reflect all things right. It's a reflection on people who bother to comment on DJT's tweets, nothing more. You're using Twitter wrong. I see DJT tweets and ads. Nothing more. If you go hunting for garbage, it's not hard to find in any medium.
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You know you can tune what you see, right?
I have been reducing who I follow for 6 months now and the one constant truth with twitter now is, everybody is going to post or retweet something about Trump. Most of them will do it daily or more frequently than that. Maybe I need to learn better ways to search for alternative topics or more interesting people, but I'm ready to stop using it any day now because of the obsession with Trump.
And as for their advertising, I get the same ads over and over and over. Like 2 or 3 of them, not really aligned wi
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I can't say I abandoned Twitter because I never adopted it. For me it's sole purpose is to provide me raw, unbiased, unfiltered communications from my President. I see no other interesting use. I don't hold it against people who do; I just don't get it. I've never paid any attention to the ads, but now that I'm realizing that they're probably targeted for a person who has never tweeted and only follows the President, I'm curious to take a look. If they're targeted in any way towards me, I'll be concerned.
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... I prefer to take the best ideas of the political right and the best ideas of the political left ...
Altogether too reasonable. I predict you will be viciously attacked.
Seriously, reason seems to have dropped out of politics and political discussion. Notice how votes in Congress now are on pretty strict party lines? (A few Republicans bail sometimes, but virtually no Dems.)
What happened to civil discourse? What happened to working together for the common good?
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And as far as the 'Drumpf' insult I really don't get it. So what if he is descendant from immigrants that changed their name.
You don't get the hypocrisy? The descendant of immigrants with the immigrant wife who wants to ban immigrants? It has nothing to do with the name change, just his xenophobia ... his racism (just ask the blacks who twice won judgments against Trump businesses for violating andti-discrimination law when trying to rent housing) ... his transmisogyny (btw - the joint chiefs of staff were not consulted for his latest brain fart. The head has said that policy will remain the same for the time being because they h
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Oh no, you're saying that the assault was second-hand smoke?
You're an idiot. Pot is illegal in Minnesota. Drugs makes people act irrationally.
. Philando said he wasn't reaching for a gun, the cop kept shouting, and ended up firing his gun seven times.
Oh, ok. I'm reaching but say I not reaching for it. That makes it ok? Sorry that is a stupid thing to do. He wasn't listening to the cop and with his irrational behavior put the cop in a situation that was threatening. How was the cop supposed to know what he was reaching for? You are assuming Philando was acting rational and it is known that he was high on drugs. People on drugs don't act rationally.
I watched the video multip
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You have an amazingly skewed view on marijuana. It's not like the guy was drinking.
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I don't have a problem with marijuana but I do recognize that it is a drug and people act irrationally on drugs. There is nothing amazing about it.
It's not like the guy was drinking.
Let's not pretend that just because pot isn't as intoxicating as alcohol that it doesn't affect motor skills [cbslocal.com] or cognitive function. Driving while stoned isn't a good idea.
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I don't need an account to see or hear about his tweets, so why would I sign up?
To answer him with an aviation hangar loads of insults just because you can? It's like, come on, the guy is so thin skinned that he's blocking users he doesn't like - and getting sued for it. Hopefully a gazillion more of the same will lead him to question what he's doing at some point.
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I don't need an account to see or hear about his tweets, so why would I sign up?
To answer him with an aviation hangar loads of insults just because you can? It's like, come on, the guy is so thin skinned that he's blocking users he doesn't like - and getting sued for it. Hopefully a gazillion more of the same will lead him to question what he's doing at some point.
If it hasn't happened yet, it will never happen. He's to self-absorbed. He thought that being president was like being king, and after 6 months of trying to rule like a king, he hasn't even figured out that he's doing it wrong.
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He thought that being president was like being king,
You must be a mind reader. Do you have a crystal ball too?
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He has tried to pass rules without respect for the law
I must have missed all those rules that he forced by ignoring the courts. Or were those the rules that the courts upheld that did indeed "respect" the law.
, actively called for the removal of a member of the judiciary who ruled against him
You mean the Mexican judge debacle? Understandable considering the point of a judge is impartiality and unbiased. Or do you mean the 9th circuit? Understandable considering they have been overstepping their judiciary role.
is actively doing everything to force is attorney general to quit because the guy (Sessions) properly recused himself from the Russian investigation
So what? Russian investigation is a nothingburger and he is the boss of the A.G. He has the right to fire him.
interfered in the FBI investigation first by trying to get the director to go easy, then firing him (reminiscent of Nixon).
You say interfered but th
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Yes, and as the President has demonstrated, it is an open platform to make yourself look like an ASS
It is not surprise to me that NOBODY wants to make themselves into a public spectacle like the Jack-ass in Chief does
NOBODY but the few million Twitter users.
(I believe they may have 100 million real accounts, but the number of active users is definitely far less.)
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Depends on how you define human. Do the brain-dead and zombies count>
What we are seeing is the burn-out of people on social media, and the cure is to just walk away. Anything of relevance will appear elsewhere anyway.
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Apparently ~300 million [latimes.com] "users".
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Well, apparently he makes major policy announcements now via twitter, and doesn't even bother to inform departments via normal channels. I'm not even sure why he has a communications staff, or heck, even a cabinet. This is government by one man and his phone.
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Not if there are bot followers to buy. The horror has just begun! He'll be talking to himself and mindless automatons... Ok, so no change, you're right. Carry on.
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It matters because the President seems to have little idea how to actually run a government, which seems odd, because at least so far as official executive instructions go, you can't tell me the way he ran Trump Enterprises was to send grammatically and spelling-challenged missives over the company email system informing departments of new policy.
Maybe the real problem here is that Trump never in fact has run a damned fucking thing in his life, that he has had lawyers and accountants who translated his garb
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> only people who are hopelessly uncool and out of touch continue to use it
People have been saying this about slashdot for a decade.
Re: I am over Twitter (Score:2)