Trump Thinks Tweeting Mean Things About Him Is “Illegal”

July 28th 2020

President Trump Welcomes the Walking Marine to the White House (The White House)

By Aldous J Pennyfarthing (from the Daily Kos community)

Oh, hi, Donald Trump! What’s on your mind today?

Good God, what fresh hell is this?

So disgusting to watch Twitter’s so-called “Trending”, where sooo many trends are about me, and never a good one. They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend. Really ridiculous, illegal, and, of course, very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2020

Illegal? Really?

For the record, here’s how Twitter determines trending topics:

Trends are determined by an algorithm and, by default, are tailored for you based on who you follow, your interests, and your location. This algorithm identifies topics that are popular now, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help you discover the hottest emerging topics of discussion on Twitter.
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Note: The number of Tweets that are related to the trends is just one of the factors the algorithm looks at when ranking and determining trends. Algorithmically, trends and hashtags are grouped together if they are related to the same topic. For instance, #MondayMotivation and #MotivationMonday may both be represented by #MondayMotivation.

So imagine you’re a risible blob of orange protoplasm that everyone with an IQ above 60 hates. People get on Twitter, tweet bad things about you, and those topics trend. Nothing “unfair” about it. And it’s certainly not “illegal,” FFS.

It’s illegal for people to talk about the president? https://t.co/ADEElNWjm7
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 27, 2020

Hey, Spanky...if you don't want to be "trending" for bad things, stop being a dickhead.

Golfing while thousands are dying? Dickhead.
Brutalizing peaceful protesters? Dickhead.
Embracing dictators? MAJOR dickhead.#DictatorTrump pic.twitter.com/QCZUG7a2Zw
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 27, 2020

by the way, loving this new serious tone and how much you're focused on the pandemic. tell us again how you're too busy to bounce a baseball halfway to home plate at Yankee Stadium on Aug 15, America can't get enough of these extremely credible fairy tales
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 27, 2020

Twitter has algorithms that rank trends based on how frequently something is tweeted. This is a reflection of how much people hate you—nothing else!
— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) July 27, 2020

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— Aldous J Pennyfarthing (@AJPennyfarthing) July 27, 2020

The next talking head to say Trump has adopted a newly serious tone gets a free trip to SeaWorld Orlando. I’ll chip in. Anyone else?

Posted with permission