Trump wasn't using Twitter, it was using him to make money - just like it does with all of us

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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Meanwhile saidit has no ads, doesn't profit from your presence, and can't sell your data, because saidit doesn't gather any data beyond what's needed to run the site.

You know, like a public utility. Like how it's supposed to be. Not sure why this is such a difficult thing, other than these people are clearly driven by greed rather than any desire to create a public utility.

[–]Tarrock 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yep. Twitter was dying before Trump won, then it gave them life support with all the Trump hate. Trump should've left the fucking site years ago.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Indeed - and yet not much of a change in users - relatively speaking - in the past 4 years:

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

I think he's been rather ungrateful for all of the free press at Twitter, CNN, and everywhere else. His last words in office should be to thank social media and news media.

[–]jet199[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Twitter's share price has gone down quite a bit today.

[–]Seahorse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep.

Really, Twitter and Trump had a sort of love hate relationship.

[–]PatDaddysFShack 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trump is a fool for using the enemy's platforms.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No shit Sherlock. If you're not paying to use a service, you're not the consumer. You're the product.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When Trump was giving capitalists tax cuts, you guys loved that. When Trump made millions ripping people off you thought he was a wise capitalist. You fear mongered over Bernie Sanders because he knew capitalism isn't always humain. Now capitalism is bad? Fuck you.

[–]Cat_chow_mein 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

haven't used twitter since 2009. Feel pretty good 'bout dat.

[–]soyboy77 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Reminds me of Musk: sure, Tesla stock is sky high now but all it takes is one dumb tweet for the stock price to nosedive. I'm sure shareholders would love it if twitter banned Musk but it'll never happen because he generates so much traffic on the platform. I sincerely hope 2021 is a really bad year for big tech...

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    [–]soyboy77 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah, wish I'd bought early. But you gotta sell sometime and you'll still want to kill yourself when it climbs to double what you sold at...

    [–]turn_coat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Fuck twitter... The internet routes around censorship.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    To a lesser extent this is what happens everywhere. You create content for these platforms. It does feel like you're not valued when they just ban you away. Especially when you're a big or popular contributor.

    Twitter/fb/Instagram should definitely just have done a temp ban at worst. The trumptards were getting riled up, but that's no reason to permanently censor the Prez.