Twitter CEO Gently Tells Trump: Your 'Lost' Followers Are Bots and Spam Accounts

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‘BIG COMPLAINTS’
Twitter CEO Gently Tells Trump: Your ‘Lost’ Followers Are Bots and Spam Accounts

Jack Dorsey may have wanted to use Tuesday’s meeting to talk up Twitter’s efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, but the president had more important things on his mind.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gets-gentle-reassurance-from-twitter-chief-jack-dorsey-over-follower-count-in-white-house-meeting

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04.23.19 7:37 PM ET




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On Tuesday, President Trump hosted Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in the Oval Office for a closed-door meeting, during which the leader of the free world spent an inordinate amount of time complaining about lost Twitter followers, according to a source familiar with the conversation.

The Twitter chief, for his part, tried to reassure the president that the company’s staff merely wants his follower count to be as bot-free as possible.


This is what the most powerful person in the world was preoccupied with Tuesday.

A large percentage of the meeting, which included senior White House officials such as Trump’s social media director Dan Scavino, was spent addressing the subject of @realDonaldTrump’s follower count. The president stated his belief that he had lost some of his roughly 59 million followers in anti-Trump, anti-conservative Twitter purges, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Dorsey, according to this knowledgeable source, had to explain to the president that like other Twitter users, @realDonaldTrump periodically loses followers when the site deletes fake or bot accounts. Dorsey even said he himself had lost followers as a result of Twitter’s efforts to delete fake accounts.


During this private gathering in the West Wing, Dorsey assured Trump that the company wants him, and everyone else on Twitter, to have only real followers, according to the source.

Trump also said he’s heard from other prominent conservatives about problems with Twitter, though he declined to name names.
“Trump has repeatedly griped to associates about how Obama has had more Twitter followers than he has, even though—by Trump’s own assessment—he is so much better at Twitter than Obama is.”..........................

[C_U_L8R]

1. Gadzooks. He's such a moron.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Both of them are.

[3Hotdogs]

11. Ya spelld moran wrong.

[erronis]

3. The dump wants to run this little country as if it's some virtual unreality game

The dump wants to be able to change the rules whenever it suits him.

How did the somewhat sentient repuglicons go along with this sham?
I know McTurtle is feathering his nest as well as other big-wigs.
But the deplorables? How did such smart people get so snookered?

[Marie Marie]

4. I've always wondered this and would appreciate any opinions:

Do you think that Trump reads the replies to his tweets? I mean, some of them - often posted here (thank you to those who share) are wonderfully brutal and make a fool out him and his stupidity. Do you think he looks at the replies - positive and negative. You can't read the positive without seeing the negative. Just really curious about this since he is so thin-skinned.

[moonscape]

12. He doesn't read. Pretty much period. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

5. The thing is, if Dorsey had offered to artificially inflate Trump's numbers, Trump would have loved

it.

And if Dorsey would have offered to shrink the number of followers of Democrats, Trump would praise him to heaven.

Here's the deal. Trump and the Republicans and the American Oligarch class that supports this are out for themselves. They don't care about this country, our people, or our futures. They don't care about just or fair. They are all about getting their's, and screw anyone who is not keeping up.

[JDC]

6. What a loser. Seriously. Just an F'ing loser

[DeminPennswoods]

7. Trump's lucky Twitter hasn't closed down his acct

for the daily ToS violations he commits.

[Initech]

8. He is such a fucking crybaby loser.

[Nitram]

9. LOL! Trump wakes up and realizes he has no supporters.

[Ilsa]

10. Too bad twitter can't delete the real followers and

leave him with his echo chamber of bots and fake accounts.

[LiberalFighter]

13. How many actually pay attention to what he says?

[marlakay]

14. I wonder how many of Obama's

Are from the world? I can’t imagine many for Trump.

[cstanleytech]

15. Trumps "big complaints from many people" is most likely from his Russian allies.

[NNadir]

16. What a moron. n/t

[lpbk2713]

17. What an incredibly insecure little man.

He really needs attention from mental health professionals.

[Purrfessor]

18. Jilted by bots, the hit to his ego causes Trump to freak out....

as he demands an investigation.