Fear, by Bob Woodward: on Technology


Donald Trump: Twitter is the reason I got elected and am successful

When Trump and Kim Jong Un ramped up the rhetoric, he was warned, "Twitter could get us into a war."

"This is my megaphone, " Trump said again. "Let's not call it Twitter, let's call it social media." Though the White House had Facebook and Instagram accounts, Trump did not use them. He stuck to Twitter. "This is who I am. This is how I communicate. It's how I got elected. It's the reason I'm successful.

The tweets were not included to his presidency. They were central. He ordered printouts to his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more. He studied them to find out the common themes in the most successful.

Source: Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, p.206 Sep 10, 2019

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