Analysis: Trump is mad about the size of his crowd on Twitter
An image from April 3, 2017, shows President Trump's Twitter feed on a computer screen in Washington. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 23 at 6:50 PM One of the obvious perks about being the president of the United States is that you can essentially snap your fingers and have something appear in your office in short order. Maybe a Diet Coke. Or maybe the head of Twitter.
“A significant portion of the meeting focused on Trump’s concerns that Twitter quietly, and deliberately, had removed some of his followers, according to a person with direct knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity because it was private,” reports The Washington Post’s Tony Romm. “Trump said he had heard from fellow conservatives who had lost followers as well.”
But it’s the sort of thing that would gall Trump. When he talks about social-media metrics, he tends to focus not on Twitter but on his follower count across platforms. In an interview with Piers Morgan last year, Trump made that case. Trump’s long shown an affection for numbers that seem to hint at his popularity. Trump’s television show “The Apprentice” topped the weekly ratings precisely once, but he still talks about it being a top-rated show and, at one point, had fake Time magazine covers touting the show’s ratings success hanging in Trump Organization properties.
Why? He explained why in that interview with Morgan: He thinks it's his way to speak directly to people without the filter of the media.
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