The most important thing Twitter affords Trump is volume in his messaging. Putting out his "from the desk of president dipshit" statements, it's like a whole thing. He has to go through a secretary, and it looks kinda pathetic on the page if you've got one paragraph of 280 characters. Neither the Trumpian messaging complexity nor the Trumpian attention span requires more than 280 characters.

I mean this fucker really must've studied Goebbels. Trump repeats his lies so often that we now know for absolutely certain that repetition is key to effective propaganda. With Twitter, he gets to repeat his lies in the format and platform he grew to basically define (see: "Twitler") so much more often than in interviews, at fund raisers, or "from the desk..." statements.

Twitter will also help Trump coordinate more uhhhhhhhhh "events" in real-time with his base of supporters, should he feel the urge. (and he WILL feel the urge)

I'd love for pretty much all of silicon valley to spectacularly implode, but I'm not sure how we get back to healthy discourse now that we've been kinda spoiled with low-effort internet bullshit. I don't even know what the world was like before.

Also the entire notion that algorithms selecting primarily for rage-based engagement are biased against right-wing content is just fucking laughable. I'm sure that it's overwhelmingly human moderation removing far-right content that companies either don't to be associated with or held legally responsible for.

Speaking of! It's gotta be way easier to bring a lawsuit against a singular owner than an entire board of shareholders, so that might get interesting. Welp, I'm off to post Nazi shit whilst tagging Elon every few minutes. I'll let you know when he abolishes the moderation team. I agree with everyone else, this will go 100% A-OK :D!