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it is sort of hard for me to comprehend how much time i've spent thinking about this man and this tool/website. and it is not a thing that exists anymore. wow.
like... @lamthuyvo and i mapped and analyzed *every link* he tweeted for 18 months in the lead up to his inauguration in 2016. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/trumps-information-universe
i obsessed over how his account was so big it created a cottage industry of growth hackers trying to use his replies to grow their accounts/spread propaganda/sell shit https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/trollpotusgrowthhack
i probably wrote like a dozen or more stories about how he tested the limits of the platform's rules. like this one. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/trumps-antagonistic-tweet-tests-the-limits-of-twitters-rules
and i wondered again and again if this would happen. (i've always thought they wouldn't do it or that he'd just use the presidency and its various podiums to draw attention).
...and now. it's gone. wow. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/trump-twitter-ban.html
...and now. it's gone. wow. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/trump-twitter-ban.html
i would like to be clear that i hate that this feels liek the moon landing to me
