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1061 points danso | 2 comments | 29 May 20 07:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.451s | source

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seesawtron ◴[29 May 20 15:10 UTC] No.23350837[source]▶

In 2017 a rogue twitter employee suspended Donal Trump's account on last day at the job. Did the world politics change in that downtime?

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1. generj ◴[29 May 20 19:27 UTC] No.23354437[source]▶

The account was only suspended for like 17 minutes, and it’s not clear the POTUS even noticed. So no, no impact to world politics.

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2. seesawtron ◴[29 May 20 22:30 UTC] No.23356335[source]▶

One week of A/B testing would an ideal experiment for social scientists studying impact of world leader's tweets on the world news. Almost a utopia.

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”