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Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Twitter Use As A 'free' Way To Share Information

... on Twitter as a “free” way to “communicate directly with the people” during an interview with Seth Meyers on Tuesday night. Conway, who will become a counselor to the president later this month, justified Trump’s controversial behaviors in the “Late Night With Seth Meyers” interview, including his refusal to release his tax returns and hold a press conference. But Meyers buckled down on Trump’s ongoing use of Twitter as a means of communication, focusing on recent messages meant to  shame detractors , claim victory over business decisions and lambaste  intelligence agencies. “Wouldn’t it be great for you personally if he tweeted a little bit less?” Meyers asked. “No, actually, the answer is no,” Conway said. “It’s his way to communicate directly with the people. It’s free for you. You get information from him. The press doesn’t like it because he does an end run around them, and it’s the democratization of information. You don’t have to wait for some journalist, some ...

Two-thirds Of American Voters Want Trump To Dump His Twitter Account

... And 32 percent of voters said he should keep his account. Eighty percent of Democrats polled said Trump should dump his account. Sixty-five percent of Independents agreed the president-elect should stop using his personal account. But Republicans seem to be more split on the issue. Forty-nine percent of those in Trump's party said he should keep his account. Forty-five percent think he should shutter it. The margin of error in the poll is 3.3 percent. Perhaps that's because Twitter was a valuable tool for Trump and his team during the campaign. It allowed Trump to immediately reach his over 15 million followers at the time. And it allowed  his campaign to streamline  its voter targeting efforts. The majority of young voters polled — ages 18 to 34 — think Trump should get rid of his account. Twitter tends to be popular among younger adults. Of all adult age groups, 18- to ...

Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand

... September 2015 — something that led to plenty of trolling about his hair, his political views, and more , though the only questions he probably saw were the softballs cherry-picked by Twitter staff. Clearly, though, he was already aware of the power available to a celebrity directly speaking his mind on Twitter. #Ask Trump @real Donald Trump What do you make of these pictures? __link__/Gfgblpo Hs K. — Donald J. Trump (@real Donald Trump) September 21, 2015. Twitter has suggested, vaguely, that they wouldn't stop short of suspending or banning Trump's account if he engaged in abusive behavior, but perhaps that's why he barely ever engages anyone — though he did, famously, retweet a comment from a 16-year-old , who was clearly a source to be trusted when it came to voter fraud. Umair Haque, director of Havas Media Labs, wrote an essay for the Harvard Business Review a year ago suggesting that Twitter's loss in active users is directly attributable to all the chaos and abuse. "It’s less ...

Did Twitter Delete Donald Trump's Account Over 'racism

... via that platform. Twitter announced today that it will delete Donald Trump’s account sometime within the next 48 hours because of what the company calls “Trump’s racist and divisive rhetoric”. “Twitter will not tolerate active users, whose only message is one of hate, racism and intolerance. Donald Trump may have been elected to the White House, but at least someone can stand up to him, for the American people and say, ‘No Mr. Trump, we are not with you,'” a spokesman for Twitter told reporters. “Everything he stands for is backwards. His appointment of racist Steve Bannon, the way he unites hate for the Muslim people in this country, his support of white power organizations. He appointed a cabinet full of billionaires and millionaires to standup for the lower and middle class. The person he puts in charge of the EPA denies climate change. His ...

Trump’s Twitter On #goldenshowergate 4chan ‘fake News

... that Russia had nothing to do with the leaked dossier published by Buzz Feed. The allegations are being blamed on 4 chan, which allegedly played a prank on the CIA with what some are claiming is a fake 35-page report about Trump, which included the passage about golden showers. ? BREAKING: Russia now joining in mocking the CIA for getting trolled by 4 chan #Golden Shower Gate __link__/rte FDsz U 2 V. — Project Purge ? (@_Project Purge) January 11, 2017. The allegations against Trump in what is being called a fake dossier included notions that Trump may have witnessed prostitutes giving each other golden showers, urinating on the bed slept in by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Trump himself has come back against such allegations. Trump’s official Twitter account of published the following tweets on Tuesday, asking if people are living in Nazi Germany with such “fake news” reports about golden showers being leaked to the public. “Intelligence agencies ...

A Demagogue For The Age Of Social Media

... this change presidential communication? It’s hard to say. I think that for decades we’ve been moving to a more informal, even populist style of presidential communication. And so I think this continues that trajectory. That doesn’t mean everyone in the future will talk like Trump — they won’t — but we will adjust to a president who angrily insults other politicians and public figures, who denies that he said what we heard him say, and so much else. And so we won’t recoil in the future in quite the same way from other politicians who do these things. Trump will normalize, to a degree, his undecorous, unpresidential habits of speech and behavior. Do you think Trump’s Twitter style serves a primary purpose? Is it primarily to sell his political persona, advance an agenda, distract reporters? All of the above. Not sure what he strives for with it. He does all those things with his tweeting. I think he goes online when he wants to command the headlines in a quick and easy way. It’s easier than convening a news conference or issuing a press release or a formal statement. What is the history of the notion that if the president says something it is inherently news? ...

Kerry Warns Trump Against Abusing Twitter

... about it, we have a problem,” Kerry said Tuesday morning during a moderated discussion with Judy Woodruff of “PBS News Hour.” “And it’s not just our problem here in the United States. It’s all over the world.”. Story Continued Below. Indeed, Trump has notoriously used his Twitter account as his primary messaging platform since he launched his presidential campaign. His erratic tweets, however, are sometimes devoid of fact and tend to lack adequate context, if any at all. Nevertheless, the president-elect often blasts short messages to his 19 million-plus followers, bypassing the traditional norm of having his transition team issue a formal press release that the media would report on. Trump’s tweets possess the power to move markets, particularly when he bashes U. S. companies for exporting jobs abroad. On Monday alone, he used the social media platform to attack “Hillary flunky” Meryl Streep after she criticized him at the Golden Globes, denied mocking a disabled reporter despite video that suggests otherwise and thanked Ford and Fiat Chrysler for keeping jobs in ...

Twitter Deleting Donald Trump’s Account Over ‘racist And Divisive Rhetoric’ Is A Hoax

... on the @real Donald Trump handle. In his latest Twitter tirade, Trump criticized fake news as “a political witch hunt” after Buzz Feed published unverifiable claims regarding Trump’s connections to Russia. Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair. — Donald J. Trump (@real Donald Trump) January 11, 2017. Though Twitter could suspend Trump based on their rules of conduct, the repercussions of censoring him would more than likely outweigh any good. “Until it creates a better anti-trolling regime, suspending the president-elect’s account for the sort of messages he has posted so far would look unfairly partisan, and could well raise more trouble for Twitter, and the world, than it solves,” the New York Times wrote last month. Despite the report being entirely fictitious, as Snopes reported, social media users shared the news—both in support of and against the fake decision to ban Trump. Social Media Shares Fake News about Trump Twitter Ban. Damn. Even @twitter doesn't like Mr. Trump. Ouch. __link__/ETK ...

Trump's Twitter Bully Pulpit Has Automakers On Edge

... for the same reason: For all his power, he can't control the media, and his tweets clearly reflect his frustration with that state of affairs. Second, Trump obviously doesn't have a clear policy here. If he tried to get reporters to write a story about his bashing automakers for Mexico plans, the journalists would likely ask a lot of questions and bring up a lot of annoying context, some of which might mitigate his message. On Twitter, the message is direct, and when reporters start trying to fact-check him on the intricacies of trade relations he just moves on to the next tweet and the next topic. These advantages are balanced by troubling trade-offs. In particular, the media scrutiny Trump seeks to avoid might actually give his scattershot campaign against outsourcing some much-needed focus. Trump seems to lash out at automakers regardless of their relative investments in the U. S. and Mexico, their overall import policy (for example, GM is the only U. S. automaker importing cars from China) or their treatment under past ...

Nothing Trump Says On Twitter Should Be Taken Seriously, According To Trump’s Lawyer

... and serious. “I think that his use of social media. is gonna be something that’s never been seen before,” Sean Spicer said last month. “He has this direct pipeline in the American people, where he can talk back and forth.” According to Trump’s lawyers, however, they are neither. Last year, political strategist Cheryl Jacobus sued Trump, alleging that when she criticized him on CNN, the then presidential candidate responded by defaming her on Twitter. “Really dumb @Cheri Jacobus. Begged my people for a job. Turned her down twice and she went hostile. Major loser, zero credibility!” he wrote in February. Jacobus, who took photos of a conversation in which it appears that members of Trump’s team had approached her about a job, and not the other way around, asked for $4 million in damages. As The Hollywood Reporter reports, Trump’s legal team argued that the case should be dismissed because his statements were “pure opinion,” and shouldn’t be considered defamatory because they could not be proven true or false. His attorney pointed out that much of the discourse on Twitter—which Trump continues to use to conduct diplomacy—is obviously ...

Trump’s Fondness For Twitter No Help To The Company

... he’s so fond of using. The San Francisco company has so far failed to exploit the enormous impact of serving as the almost-exclusive mouthpiece for the soon-to-be leader of the free world. If anything, Trump’s Twitter addiction shines an even harsher spotlight on the company’s impotence in generating profit or significantly expanding its user base. If the most powerful man on Earth conducts market-moving policy on Twitter — the grandest sort of celebrity endorsement there is — and if that can’t help the company make money, then who can. Since Trump launched his once-quixotic campaign for president in July 2015, Twitter’s stock price has actually fallen 52 percent; it closed Tuesday at $17.37. But surely, all of the media talk about Trump tweets means people are flocking to Twitter, right? Not really. At the end of September, the ...

A Look Inside His Twitter Following

... a mathematical fact that Trump, via social media, is communicating with only a small percentage of Americans, but he and the people around him promote this commander-in-tweet approach as if it's a populist innovation. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer recently said: "I think it freaks the mainstream media out that he has this following of over 45-plus million people that follow him on social media, that he can have a direct conversation. He doesn't have to have it funnel through the media.". Let's break that "45-plus million" number down a bit. Assume Spicer's number is correct — it isn't — and that the president-elect can relay his thoughts or policy announcements directly to 45 million people. Also assume those people are all Americans — they aren't — and then put that audience in perspective by comparing it to the current U. S. population which, according to census data, is about 320 million people. (Heather Wilhelm). That's 14 percent of the American ...