Tag: Twitter
Hilarious Twitter Posts on Trump’s Presser at the Other Four Seasons
As if you weren’t feeling great enough this morning following the incredible event last night featuring our new president-elect and the country’s first female vice president-elect. Maybe we’re still giddy but the posts on Twitter following Trump’s announcement of a big press conference at the Four Seasons — no, not THAT Four Seasons…well anyway, see for yourself.
Facebook Suspends 70 Bloomberg-Related Accounts
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Twitter announced that it is suspending 70 accounts that posted content supporting Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign, saying the messages violated its company rules, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Russians Promoted GOP Shutdown Talking Points on Twitter
“The White House branded the federal budget impasse… as the ‘Schumer Shutdown’ in its attempt to pin the blame on Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY). … But it wasn’t just Republicans using that phrase during the weekend government shutdown. Independent analysts said Twitter accounts linked to Russia have spread the same message.”
— Los Angeles Times
Twitter Co-Founder Apologizes for Trump
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that. If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
— Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, quoted by the New York Times, on Donald Trump’s claim he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter.
Donald Brags about His IQ – But If He’s So Smart, Why Can’t He Spell?
@realDonaldTrump Then why is your spelling so atrocious? Hear by, amoung, chocker, dummer, honered, payed, unpresidented.
— Pensito (@PensitoReview) March 6, 2017
Conway Retweets White Nationalist
I don’t know who had access to my account … I denounce whoever it is. It will be immediately deleted. Everybody makes mistakes.
— Kellyanne Conway, quoted by BuzzFeed, after she retweeted a white nationalist on Twitter.
A 20-Question Quiz for the Media
We live in an era where the very foundations of journalism are increasingly under attack, where “fake news” is ascendent and the intellect and attention span of the public is on the decline.
In response, the editors of Pensito Review, in consultation with researchers at the Moscow Center for Media Studies, have crafted this 20-question quiz to help journalists clarify their mission and find their place in the cosmos during the current Trump administration.
1. Are you feeling depressed, demoralized, disgusted, disenfranchised or simply dissed by the state of the news media and its public perception today? (select one)
- One of them
- Two of them
- Three of them
- All of them
- None of them
#ThanksObama — We Will Always Be Grateful for Your Service
We’re going to be feeling the feels on Inauguration Day — fear, sadness, disgust. We hope 44 is right, and our country is strong enough to withstand the next four years intact as a democracy. In the meantime, let’s make #ThanksObama a trending topic on the Twitter. If you tweet, go forward and let @BarackObama know you were glad he and his family made it through the past two terms and add what you’d like to thank him for the most.
Photo via Whitehouse.gov.