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Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

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707 points patd | 2 comments | 27 May 20 12:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ProAm ◴[27 May 20 13:51 UTC] No.23323185[source]▶
Twitter will kowtow to the President here. He is the reason alone Twitter survived the last 6 years and they have shown publicly that politicians and celebrities play by different rules on their platform.
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1. bearjaws ◴[27 May 20 15:08 UTC] No.23324488[source]▶
In the last 15+ years we have heard this same story, "X platform wouldn't exist without Y user". This has never turned out to be true for any large scale social media platform. For the platforms that have failed, it was always a better platform that took their place, not one single user causing a mass migration.

Look at the_donald, which had a mass migration off of Reddit, and everyone said Reddit was going to shutdown without their ad revenue. Still waiting...

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2. ProAm ◴[27 May 20 15:29 UTC] No.23324784[source]▶
I agree but I really think Trump saved Twitter. The company was for sale and couldn't find a buyer remotely interested. They couldnt find anyone willing to take the CEO seat so they asked Jack Dorsey to come back. They were in the dumps as a company until Trump started to tweet like a madman. I really do believe that Trump saved Twitter. I dont remember people thinking Reddit would fail if they lost the_donald subreddit?