Posted on 12/06/2016 4:12:14 PM PST by RightGeek
'Twitter helped win me the election,’ President-elect Donald Trump told me when we spoke two weeks ago.
He cited his extraordinary army of 16 million followers on the social media platform as one reason (he has almost as many on Facebook). Each follower represented a potential voter he could talk to directly on a daily, or hourly basis – in exactly the way he wanted.
The second reason, he said, was his ability to set the news cycle for a day with one solitary tweet.
He particularly loved the fact, as a businessman, that it costs him absolutely nothing; Twitter is the ultimate marketing tool.
[SNIP]
Each episode followed a familiar 10-part pattern:
1) Trump posts an inflammatory, highly opinionated tweet.
2) The media goes nuts.
3) Trump’s tweet then dominates the news all day.
4) The media demands he stops tweeting because it’s ‘un-presidential.’
5) Trump ignores them.
6) Conventional politicians demand he stops tweeting because it’s un-presidential.’
7) Trump ignores them too.
8) Trump wakes up next morning to every paper and cable news show talking about his tweet.
9) Trump chuckles to himself.
10) Trump tweets again.
Repeat.
As someone who also loves Twitter and has also been known to stir the pot with incendiary tweets to gain attention (‘We do it the same way!’ Trump chuckled on our phone call), I am in awe of his absolute mastery of the medium.
I’m also flabbergasted at just how dumb much of the American media has been, and continues to be, in letting Trump play them in such an obvious way.
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Name a politician who does twitter better (pro tip: you can’t.)
And yes I know it is that Piers Morgan, but even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut.
If not Twitter, then something else provided speech isn’t entirely choked off by the MSM.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat. Parent companies include: Disney, Comcast, Time Warner.
This is how I picture Trump declaring war ...
#smoking ruin #your country gone @POTUS declares war on you, kiss yer ass goodbye. #five minutes to death #already launched em cant call em back
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Posted on 12/5/2016, 8:49:57 AM by Non-Compliant_Deplorable
“The essay I want to share with you is one the most excellent and far-reaching pieces of truth I have ever read. The writer is Carl Herman. Carl Herman is a National Board Certified Teacher of US Government, Economics, and History; also credentialed in Mathematics...he demands a clear vision of the current Mainstream Media hoax that is currently being played upon Alternative Media.
He gives examples of the true hoax of Mainstream Media, which has been played on the American people for a very long time.
That is how Alternative Media was born….we had to find our way from the darkness of lies to Light of truth. The Internet is both a positive and negative entity, but Alternative Media has become the positive force of the Internet...”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3501626/post
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Posted on 12/4/2016, 7:51:47 AM by jennychase
I think one of the reasons people get so concerned about the tweets is it is sort of a way around the press. He doesn’t have to rely upon, uh, rely upon — this is the modern era, modern technology. He’s at the point where we don’t need you guys anymore.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3501300/posts
Trump’s Mastery of Social Media Renders Main Stream Media Irrelevant
there. fixed it.
So sad!
>>And yes I know it is that Piers Morgan, but even a blind squirrel finds an occasional nut.<<
He seems to be a convert, but morgan WAS the first Celebrity Apprentice winner (I think) so there more than a little personal in his opinions about Trump.
Those who criticize Trump using Twitter had no problem with Roosevelt having his radio chats.
And on another topic, those who criticize Trump curbing the illegal invasion had no problem with Roosevelt sending the Japanese to camps and stealing their land.
I wish that there was a social media app that was owned and run by conservatives.
I’m actually gaining respect for him...
I’ve started calling MSM the OLD MEDIA...trying to get millenials to wake up. Need to tell them they are WAY behind.
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