Posted on 10/30/2019 4:05:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign slammed Twitter on Wednesday over the company's decision to stop running political ads on its platform.
“Twitter just walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue, a very dumb decision for their stockholders," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement.
"Will Twitter also be stopping ads from biased liberal media outlets who will now run unchecked as they buy obvious political content meant to attack Republicans?" he added.
The Trump campaign accused the social media platform of "yet another attempt to silence conservatives, since Twitter knows President Trump has the most sophisticated online program ever known.”
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Hillary celebrates Twitter's decision to stop political advertising: 'What say you, Facebook?'
If (God forbid) Trump loses in 2020, this nation will descend more quickly into a totalitarian nightmare than George Orwell would ever have thought possible.
I don’t do ‘twitter’ and I didn’t understand this news when it was first posted.
All I could think was that, under this policy, they would eventually find ANY Trump tweet ‘political’...
Hillary told Twitter not to worry ,when she’s President they can have all the money they want as long as the Clinton Foundation gets it’s 10%
The twits will just claim liberal ads are public service announcements.
Twitter wouldn’t have imposed the ban if they didn’t think it would hurt Trump more than all the others.
Anyone can still tweet a video.
Bet you climate change and planned Parenthood ads will not be considered political. How convenient
Bet you climate change and planned Parenthood ads will not be considered political. How convenient
Yep. They are just banning any ads from political parties and PAC that support candidates in 2020.
Their intention is to ban Donald Trump, under the guise of banning political adds
Good point......
Contact enforcement@sec.gov.
Talking points:
SOURCE WIKI---Twitter Initial public offering (IPO)
On September 12, 2013, Twitter announced that it had filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ahead of a planned stock market listing.[95] It revealed its prospectus in an 800-page filing.[96] Twitter planned to raise US$1 billion as the basis for its stock market debut.[97] The IPO filing states that “200,000,000+ monthly active users” access Twitter and “500,000,000+ tweets per day” are posted.[34][98] In an October 15, 2013 amendment to their SEC S-1 filing,[99] Twitter declared that they would list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), quashing speculation that their stock would trade on the NASDAQ exchange. This decision was widely viewed to be a reaction to the botched initial public offering of Facebook.[100]
On November 6, 2013, 70 million shares[101] were priced at US$26 and issued by lead underwriter Goldman Sachs.[102]
On November 7, 2013, the first day of trading on the NYSE, Twitter shares opened at $26.00 and closed at US$44.90, giving the company a valuation of around US$31 billion.[103] The paperwork from show of November 7 that among the founders, Williams received a sum of US$2.56 billion and Dorsey received US$1.05 billion, while Costolo’s payment was US$345 million.[104]
On February 5, 2014, Twitter published its first results as a public company, showing a net loss of $511 million in the fourth quarter of 2013.[105]
On January 5, 2016, CEO Jack Dorsey commented on a report that Twitter planned to expand its character limit to 10,000 (private messages already had the longer limit as of July), requiring users to click to see anything beyond 140 characters. He said while Twitter would “never lose that feeling” of speed, users could do more with the text.[106] In September 2016, Twitter shares rose 20% after a report that it had received takeover approaches.[107] Potential buyers were Alphabet (parent company of Google),[107] Microsoft,[108][109][110] Salesforce.com,[107][111] Verizon,[111] and The Walt Disney Company.[112][113] Twitter’s board of directors were open to a deal, which could have come by the end of 2016.[107][114]
However, no deal was made, with reports in October stating that all the potential buyers dropped out partly due to concerns over abuse and harassment on the service.[115][116][117]
In June 2017, Twitter revamped its dashboard to improve the new user experience.[118][119]
GOOD TIME FOR A NEW COMPETITOR for twitter..
It just shows how desperate the Dems are to silence Trump.
Just put the ads on Youtube.
I agree with that, but I also think they are very wrong.
No one but Trump could do it, but he's going to make hay over this somehow.
Bingo.
Next year, when the Republicans take both houses of Congress, it will be time to de-fang the Leftist monopoly of social media.
No...if Trump were to lose the election in 2020...there will be a full blown, wide open, unrestrained, civil war and I personally would not want to be a Democrat!!!
And...if by chance I was a Democrat...I would not depend on the LEOs and Military to protect me...they won’t...you will be on your own!!! That’s the bad news...the overwhelming good news is that Trump will be re-elected in a gigantic, massive landslide victory in November, 2019...period!!! End of a civil war...that will never happen, and end of the Democrat Party...politically!!! Case Closed!!!
I heard Monica Lewinsky is developing a new platform to compete against Twitter. It’ll be called....SPITTER
They're going to refuse to allow him to advertise anywhere.
Oh, I see that I mistakenly wrote "the Democrats, the Democrats and the Democrats"
I meant to write "social media, the Democrats and the networks"...
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