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.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday May 23 2017, @03:05PM
Twitter is the medium of the soundbite. The information content of a Tweet is tiny. Obviously, it's a very inefficient medium. It is impossible to have any discussion of depth on Twitter. The result is a perpetual torrent of low value gibberings. And people love it!
They say that people get the government they deserve.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].