USA | January 10, 2021
On Friday evening, the Twitter platform pulled the plug on the elected US president. A look back at his tweet behavior makes you sit up and take notice.
The elected US President Donald Trump had more than 88 million followers on his Twitter account.Foto: Keystone/AP, Alex Brandon
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The elected US President Donald Trump has made global politics on Twitter, fired cabinet members and insulted opponents. On Friday evening, the short message service withdrew his most important communication platform. The president recently reached more than 88 million followers with his messages directly via @realDonaldTrump, without having to go through traditional media. The Trump Twitter archive has recorded 56,571 tweets, 26,237 of which he sent as president. In the past three months, Trump had an average of 30 tweets a day.
Up to 163 tweets a day
Trump kept the world in suspense with his constant tweets. On June 4 of last year alone, during the protests against racism and police violence after the death of the African American George Floyd, he sent 163 Twitter messages to the world, his one-day record. In the monthly ranking, last September, when the election campaign was in full swing, was ahead with 1,421 Trump tweets.
Since 2009
The first tweet was sent by @realDonaldTrump on May 4, 2009, when Trump announced his appearance on David Letterman’s late night show. As President Trump used the platform like no one before him, never before has Twitter messages been more important. Trump not only spread political messages via the channel, but also often shameless self-promotion – for example on January 6, 2018, when he described himself as “a very stable genius”. Some tweets stirred up concerns about a war, for example on May 19, 2019: “If Iran wants to fight, it will be the official end of Iran,” Trump wrote at the time. Others remained a mystery, something of his message from May 31, 2017, which was later deleted, with the word “Covfefe”. “I think the president and a small number of people know exactly what he meant,” said his spokesman at the time.
Under The waistline
Trump shared powerfully against his opponents and critics on Twitter, often below the belt. For example, on October 24, 2017, Trump certified the then US Senator Bob Corker that he could not be “even elected to be a dog catcher in Tennessee”. Most recently, Trump used Twitter primarily to spread his unsubstantiated claims of fraud in the November 3rd presidential election and to oppose his defeat. Twitter provided more and more of its tweets with warnings. After Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, the company pulled the rip cord. Because of the “risk of further incitement to violence”, Twitter blocked the @realDonaldTrump account permanently. The current president sent his last Twitter message on Friday at 10.44 a.m .: In it, Trump announced that he would not take part in the swearing-in of his successor Joe Biden on January 20.
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