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

... 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 29-year-olds are most likely to be on Twitter, according to the  Pew Research Center. But without his personal Twitter account and sometimes off-the-cuff tweets, Trump might find it more difficult to reach the people who put him in office. And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wouldn't have  a giant prop  to bring to the Senate floor to help prove ...

Will Trump's Twitter Fixation Push Away His Defenders

... tear down this wall!” because he knew it was what Reagan wanted to have happen. Donald Trump 's refusal to flat out concede that Russia tried to meddle in our election and to accept the findings of the intelligence community makes little policy or political sense. To the contrary, his weird defense of our most formidable geopolitical threat has fueled doubts. President-elect Donald Trump 's refusal to flat out concede that Russia tried to meddle in our election and to accept the findings of the intelligence community makes little policy or political sense. To the contrary, his weird defense of our most formidable geopolitical threat has fueled doubts. (Jennifer Rubin). “Ronald Reagan’s writers were never attempting to fabricate an image, just to produce work that measured up to the standard Reagan himself had already established,” Robinson would later write. “His policies were plain. He had been articulating them for decades.”. The vast ...

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

... committing to divest from fossil fuels, embrace clean energy, set emissions targets and develop climate action plans , among other measures. “The ominous signals coming out of D. C. point to even more work needed at the city and state level,” said Kate Kiely, national media deputy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In November, the NRDC announced partnerships with 20 cities across the country from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Houston, Texas, to make strides in renewable energy. According to Brune, cities could have an especially big influence in the climate change fight. “We should be pushing cities to go 100 percent clean energy and to reject natural gas and coal and other fossil fuels,” he said. “A majority of people now live in cities, so this could have a dramatic impact.”. In the U. S., 20 cities have already made commitments to rely completely on clean energy. “People should organize and get their own cities to move forward,” Brune said. Contact your mayor, city council, or county or state representative and get them to set a ...

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

... According to Trump’s incoming White House press secretary, his tweets are some combination of literal 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 ...

Trump's Twitter Bully Pulpit Has Automakers On Edge

... the best developments for American auto jobs in years. Ford’s real decision to cancel the Mexico plant may have been heavily motivated by business concerns, but by giving Trump the credit they probably hoped to send him looking for other targets. And sure enough, Trump immediately went after GM’s decision to import Chevrolet Cruzes from Mexico, prompting an extremely misleading statement from the company (which I debunked on Twitter ), and ultimately a promise not to import any more Cruze sedans to the U. S. From there, Trump went after Toyota, which promised not to reduce U. S. employment as a result of any Mexico investments. At this week’s Detroit Auto Show, automakers are falling over themselves to tout their investments in US jobs. These may be mostly symbolic victories, but they show that Trump’s tweets have shaken down the old, apathetic order. Of course Trump's use of Twitter as a medium says less about social media than about the power of the presidential bully pulpit - and that he could have had equal influence through speeches or press releases or interviews. But I think Twitter gives the president-elect two unique advantages over traditional media ...

Trump’s Fondness For Twitter No Help To The Company

... by boosting ratings. He was not wrong. Of course, people could follow quips and commentary about the debate on Twitter, and plenty did. But important events like presidential debates are best played out on television, not 140 characters at a time. Which brings us to to another flaw in Twitter. The reasons Trump likes to use it — its brevity and forum for unfettered speech — are the very reasons that the company can’t exploit his popularity. “Whether Trump says something good or bad, reasonable or outrageous, and whether users like Trump or not, they may find a reason to engage with him through replies or retweets as long as he is actively using the platform, all of which means more engagement,” said Pinar Yildirim, an assistant professor of marketing with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. But Trump does not really ...

Kerry Warns Trump Against Abusing Twitter

... Committee. He also took issue with how lax Trump’s transition team and the Republican-led Congress has been on the nomination process. “We have a whole bunch of hearings that are taking place without any — and I’m stepping beyond my bailiwick, but it’s quite amazing to me when I think of the hoops I had to jump through with respect to papers submitted and documentation and tax returns and a whole bunch of things,” he said. “Suddenly, that’s gone poof and it’s not as important. So I think we have a lot of reckoning to do in our country in the next days and months, and I can assure you that when I’m out of this office, I’m gonna spend time along with a lot of others trying to focus on it.”. With respect to the Obama administration’s efforts on international issues like the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal, both of which Trump has panned, Kerry expressed confidence that common sense would prevail in the next administration. “If that were just arbitrarily undone,” Kerry warned of the Iran deal, “we’re going back to a place of conflict almost ...

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

... masquerading as CNN. The article , which was published Jan. 10, said Trump’s account would be deleted within the next 48 hours over his “racist and divisive rhetoric.” It purports. “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,’” Paul Horner, 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 person in charge of education doesn’t believe in public education. The American people should not accept this. The children of this country deserve a leader who will build a successful future for them. Twitter will not aid and abet him as he makes a mockery of the Presidency. We have no choice but to delete his account.”. ...

Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand

... abuse. "It’s less like a town square and something more like a mosh pit," he writes. Further, he says. The social incentives online still somehow work in reverse [from real life]. Consider: call a dozen strangers names in real life, and you’ll probably get punched in the face six times. Punch six people in the face, and at least one of them is likely to call the police. But do it digitally, and 1,000 fake friends will magically appear from nowhere and actually cheer you on, while the tech companies hosting the mob won’t do much to stop (much less prevent) it. Hence, a downward spiral of cruelty. He suggests that the Twitter mosh pit is simply a product of our "age of discontent," and both trolls and Trump alike are simply capitalizing a cycle of abuse and reward that already exists. And, he asserts that Twitter (and Facebook, in part) treat abuse as a nuisance to be dealt with, rather than a core business issue in an age when so many of our public interactions are of such low quality. "Offering low-quality ...

A Look Inside His Twitter Following

... 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 public Trump could reach via social media. That's a tiny America. Now let's actually add up Trump's current followers on Twitter and Instagram, likes on Facebook and subscribers on his You Tube channel. The total is about 41.1 million, not, as Spicer said, "45-plus million.". Also, you'll note I don't qualify that number as "41.1 ...