Trump will lose his protection against Twitter bans when he leaves office

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This is a major contributor. Almost every time it’s unfounded.
 
He is perhaps the loudest voice among the group of presidents and ex-presidents in history. If he wants to be heard, he will find a way, regardless of twitter.
 
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He could start his own website or blog and put whatever he likes on it without fear of censorship. It would no doubt have millions of readers.

Half the reason he tweets is because he likes to argue with Twitter and get the attention when Twitter censors him.
 
To that end, he has succeeded. He has done well highlighting twitter’s bias, for whatever that is worth.
 
I think most of us know that. It would be nice if they didn’t claim to be unbiased at least, but asking for honesty is probably too much. I for one have long accepted twitter and facebook’s bias.
 
I completely agree with you. The main reason they don’t admit bias is that, like all Internet businesses, they fear gub’mint regulation. They aren’t fooling anybody; they have a desired customer base (which is primarily anyone who pays them, such as advertisers - NOT the people who just use the service to post for free) and they’re interested in serving their base and getting paid while avoiding the costs of government regulation and interference.

I personally would pay a service to just let me manipulate my own feed rather than them deciding what they’re going to put in it, to the point where I sometimes have been literally unable to access completely non-controversial content from pages I’ve “liked” because some algorithm decided they’d rather show me something else. But they make more money deciding what content to show me, I guess. I hate it and am constantly on the lookout for a better alternative which I’m sure will be along in a few years, though Gab and Parler aren’t it, for me.
 
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I think this is the least of Trump’s problems when he leaves office.
 
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I personally would pay a service to just let me manipulate my own feed rather than them deciding what they’re going to put in it
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Jack says they are looking into that. In the mean time, for people that use Twitter, they have the option of the non-algorithmic timeline.

The next hearing with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube with a congressional committee is on the 17th or 18th. I’m sure this topic will come up again.
 
You know, although I don’t use it, there are occasionally moments when I think of someone I’d like to follow so maybe you have a point. My impression of it is just that it’s short missives like things a person would jot down on a post-it note.
 
I only use Facebook. They used to have an option for you to just see your raw feed, we called it the “firehose feed”. They took that away many years ago. I’m now at the point where I have real difficulty even viewing any of my friends’ posts. When someone has a death in the family, then unless the person and I have been commenting each others’ posts within the last few days, I often don’t see the post until a whole bunch of other people have reacted to it which causes it to rise in the feed. It can be a bit annoying not knowing that someone’s mother died for 3 days because Facebook decided you didn’t need to see that post, meanwhile they’re filling my feed with election garbage that is of far less interest to me than the fact that my friend lost a parent.

I’ve also found that there are totally non-controversial “Stories” (we’re talking travel photos, cats etc) from pages I’ve liked, favorited, set to “See First” etc that I am totally unable to see at all because Facebook can only show so many Stories at once and for some weird reason prioritizes the ones from pages I haven’t lately visited. Drives me nuts.
 
He actually had a blog for a long while, “the Trump university blog”. He opined on lots of things like gay marriage, the necessity of prenuptial agreements, Kelly Preston and the loss of her child.

It might still be readable somewhere on the internet.
 
I have no idea how Favebook prioritizes what one sees. I end up going to the pages of specific people. The algorithm typically shows me people I haven’t interacted with in years.
 
You just reminded me of that time he shared his opinion of “The Central Park 5.” I guess he has always found a way to make his opinion known.
 
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You know, although I don’t use it, there are occasionally moments when I think of someone I’d like to follow so maybe you have a point. My impression of it is just that it’s short missives like things a person would jot down on a post-it note.
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I follow some people I know, news people, news outlets.

I follow news links on Twitter to get a broad view of what’s being reported.
 
Basically the same for me.I also follow food and cooking, Art, religion and pets.

I recommend Pavlov and Maslow, one is a corgi the other a Keeshond. They are really cute.
 
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