Today we are assaulted by daily
tweetstorms. Tribalism.
military is that it rolls onward, through
tweetstorms and turmoil.
Describing the President's early Sunday morning
tweetstorms in his office, Priebus calls it "the Devil's Workshop." His own legal team finds it difficult to defend him.
As unwelcome as his scattershot
tweetstorms might be, there is confidence the technocrats are still in charge.
But they are far from the only ones using hordes of fake accounts to push centrally designed
tweetstorms and PR campaigns.
The network has stepped up efforts to boost its user base and engagement, adding streaming video partnerships, doubling the character limit on tweets to 280 and making it easier to create "
tweetstorms" by stringing messaging together.
Compared to the low expectations induced by his ranting
tweetstorms, it was enough to have some observers describing it as presidential.
The platform introduced the 'Threads' button, or a plus button that allows Twitter users to create '
tweetstorms' allowing them to share more information or tell longer stories or arguments.
That's hardly because I disagree with him that America's forty-fifth president is a menace to democracy (amply demonstrated), so corrupt he could give workaday heist flicks a bad name (we're mostly numb to that by now), most likely cuckoo (Olbermann is good at dismantling the lunacy evident in Trump's
tweetstorms), and fatally tainted by his compromising Russian connection.
But nothing he said has been quite as unsettling as his recent
tweetstorms about North Korea, his warnings of"fire and fury" and his quip about"the calm before the storm." Many have hoped, and still hope, that Trump's aggressive posture is mostly theatre, designed to slake his thirst for attention, keep adversaries off guard and force changes in their behaviour by words alone.
While
tweetstorms aren't frequently used by most Twitter users, making them a formal part of Twitter would fit with past user-friendly platform updates by the social media network.
The Texas Tribune's Twitter account will be chock-full of
tweetstorms, breaking news and more, and if things get especially frenzied, head over to our Facebook page for a livestream and play-by-play analysis.
The casting of Massoud and Scott was announced at the Disney convention D23 on Saturday, after months of media speculation and fan-led
tweetstorms about who should and shouldn't be chosen for the roles.
Rather than rushing to be acolytes or starting
tweetstorms, we would do well to pause and reflect.
