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Trump complains about Twitter removing his followers
US President Donald Trump complained Friday that Twitter is removing some of his followers and has made it harder to join, an apparent critique of the social network's efforts to weed out fake and abusive accounts.
Trump, who has some 55 million Twitter followers, revived his argument about "bias" by internet firms in a morning tweet[*] that suggested growth in his network was slowing.
[...] Trump's remarks appeared aimed at Twitter's efforts to weed out fake and "spam" accounts to improve the health and safety of the platform.
For months, Twitter has sought to eliminate automated and bogus accounts designed to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter, in response to concerns over Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Twitter said this week the number of active users fell by nine million in the past quarter as a result of these efforts.
Asked about the president's comments, a Twitter spokesman said: "Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior.
"Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people."
[*] Tweet source:
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Twitter has removed many people from my account and, more importantly, they have seemingly done something that makes it much harder to join - they have stifled growth to a point where it is obvious to all. A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?"
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Tuesday October 30 2018, @02:10PM (5 children)
What is trump even doing posting on some pissy little private third party web site? So they are imposing their own rules? Well, cry me a frikkin river. What's that? You think Tweeter is some kind of public utility like roads or electric poles? Sorry, that is not the case.
Trump should get his own website. With blackjack! And hookers! Ah, forget the website. :P
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday October 30 2018, @03:22PM
Er...what would be a pissy little first-party website? A forum run by the government?
By the nature of it, 95% of stuff on the Internet is going to privately-owned. (It didn't start out that way, but hey.)
I wouldn't give him that much credit. More likely just a "they're being mean to me!" emotional reaction.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 4, Funny) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @04:04PM (3 children)
Well that sounds nice... but when hookers are involved, I have different requirements than our president does... For one, I expect hookers to actually screw people, not just pee on them.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @05:05PM (2 children)
Heck, I expect my hookers to actually be of legal age.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2018, @07:24PM (1 child)
Where? in Thailand?
(Score: 1, Troll) by stretch611 on Tuesday October 30 2018, @09:10PM
Well Trump likes the Soviet hookers... Not sure of their age though...
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-hookers-golden-showers-622604 [newsweek.com]
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-prostitutes-russia-report-9601118 [mirror.co.uk]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P