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Twitter Co-founder: I’m Sorry if We Made Trump’s Presidency Possible

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the closing-the-barn-door dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

If anyone knows how important Twitter is to Donald Trump, it's the president.

“Without the tweets, I wouldn't be here,” he told the Financial Times last month.

To which Twitter's co-founder says: Sorry about that, world.

Evan Williams, who still sits on the company's board of directors, recently told The New York Times that he wants to repair the damage he thinks Twitter and the broader Internet have wrought on society in the form of trolls, cyberbullies, live-streamed violence, fake news and — yes — Trump.

“I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place,” Williams told the Times. “I was wrong about that.”

“If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry,” he said.

Is Twitter responsible?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:40PM (#514227)

    Twitter is going to be replaced by Hollerith which is limited to 80 characters.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:11PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 23 2017, @02:11PM (#514249) Journal

    Mmm... you mean IBM cards - I might have a stack of them somewhere.

    Otherwise, the original Hollerith cards [wikipedia.org] weren't actually standardized and the number of rows/columns was application specific.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @05:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @05:48PM (#514419)

    Hopefully also in ALL CAPS ONLY. Would read.