Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal

Okay hacker news. If there was ever a time to bend the "no politics" rule, this is it.

For anyone else confused about what emoji has to do with Twitter hashtag, what they're talking about is something more properly called "hashflags" [0][1], which are custom icons that automatically appear after certain hashtags. For example, if you use hashtag #periscope [2], the Periscope logo will appear afterwards. They have nothing to do with the standard emoji set and are only "emoji" in the loose sense that they are pictorial images in line with text.

0: http://gizmodo.com/those-weird-auto-emoji-in-your-twitter-fe...

1: http://hashfla.gs/

2: https://twitter.com/hashtag/periscope

Who can take the idea of "Silicon Valley" as an engine for social change seriously when industry leaders behave like this?

Disappointed to see that this got flagged/buried -- I thought the no-politics ban was for only a week? Anyway, this doesn't have to devolve into a political debate, or at least Trump-bashing. Because the RNC was correct, if what's detailed in this post by the Trump ad-designer matches reality: https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48c...

The choosing of emoji is inevitably political -- how could it not be? But in this case, it seems like the RNC was reasonably amenable to Twitter's purported requirements.

Wow Trump is so alpha it's unbelievable.

He's negging the company that he uses to communicate with all of his fans. And he knows they won't do anything about it.