Donald Trump on social media
From his official declaration of candidacy in June 2015 through the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency, he tweeted over 17,000 times. In a January 2019 UMass Lowell poll, 68 percent of all respondents aged 18–37 said Trump tweets too much. As the incumbent president, Trump’s personal Twitter account has certain privileges and public interest protections against community moderation.
About Donald Trump on social media in brief
From his official declaration of candidacy in June 2015 through the first two-and-a-half years of his presidency, he tweeted over 17,000 times. In a January 2019 UMass Lowell poll, 68 percent of all respondents aged 18–37 said Trump tweets too much. As the incumbent president, Trump’s personal Twitter account has certain privileges and public interest protections against community moderation on Twitter, at least until January 2021. The emergence of social media has changed the way in which political communication takes place in the United States. Politicians have a platform to communicate with that is different from the mainstream media. In 2012, President Barack Obama raised over a billion dollars for his campaign, which broke the fundraising record. In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama was the first to use the Internet to organize supporters, advertise, and communicate with individuals in a way that had been impossible in previous elections. The videos posted on YouTube by Obama’s were viewed for 14. 5 million hours. As of 2012, more candidates were utilizing a wider array of social networking sites like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other new social media tools and mobile apps. By late 2019, President Trump had created a new style of communications to the public that largely bypassed the White House and relied on his own direct speaking and tweets. According to Wael Ghonim, social media can reinforce pre-existing beliefs rather than promote new ones. Social media, while a great source of gathering volunteers and money, serves the main purpose of affirming political beliefs and strengthening a political base.
Some of the candidates used social media sites to announce their candidacy. By May 16, 2011, @BarackObama was followed by 7.4 million people, including twenty-eight world leaders. His account became the third account to reach 10 million followers in September 2011. By the first half of 2019, he was tweeting as frequently as he had done during his first year in office. He did reduce his number of tweets during his early time in office, but he gradually increased his use of Twitter during his second year. After winning the election in November 2016, Trump said in a television interview that, as president, he would be very restrained, if I use it at all at all. He often posts controversial and false statements on his Twitter account @realDonaldTrump. At least 145 of which have pushed conspiracy or fringe content, including more than two dozen that have since been suspended by Twitter. He retweeted 217 accounts that have not been verified by Twitter, and retweeted himself and sometimes retweets himself while retweeting other people’s comments. The retweet feature he agrees with no matter how obscure their authors are is important to secure a retweet from him, according to a report in The Washington Post. In June 2017 Fox News poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump’s tweets were hurting his agenda. Some supporters called themselves ‘Centipedes’ online. Some of his supporters called himself ‘The Donald’ on social media.
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