Users: Please help get rid of these nazis
Twitter: ROUND PROFILE PICS!
Users: Please help prevent nuclear war
Twitter: HOW ABOUT LONGER TWEETS!The only thing worse is that there are people crying out for it.
Not that I support it, but if Twitter were a paid platform they would have more accountability to the users, not beacuse they have finally realised their place as a setter of massive trends and social control, but because the users hold the shareholders ransom by way of threatening to take away any profit.
Tweets are probably made along side more traditional forms of communication.
But Trump is just something else. The sheer lack of self control. This is not the behaviour of a leader of a first world nation or for that matter, an adult.
This is factually incorrect.
"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow....."
During those ten minutes, even folks at the Pentagon were wondering if Trump was about to announce a strike on a foreign power or something of that gravity... and surely folks in other countries' governments were wondering the same.
A cut-off tweet could, indeed, lead someone to believe a strike is imminent.
That's why diplomacy is a profession which requires great skill and expertise, and why escalation is rarely used as a tactic by the professionals. Flying bombers which could contain nuclear weapons near the other side's cities, for example, might make jumpy people pull the trigger. Radars, nervous radar technicians, and their nervous superiors do make make mistakes.
A surprisingly large number of wars do start with errors. Off the top of my head:
The destruction of the ship the Maine by the Spanish started the Spanish-American War, even though the ship likely wasn't destroyed by the Spanish.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Vietnamese attacked U.S. Navy ships. started the Vietnam War, even though there was no attack (it was radar error).
Iraq's WMD program and alliance with Al Qaeda started the Iraq War, even though there was no program or alliance.
Do you have a source you could provide for this?
I'll leave it to your judgment whether or not you think Buzzfeed's journalistic quality was up to par that day or not. (It varies.)
Twitter seems to have the worst luck/timing when it comes to 'new features'. Last time it was
> Users: Please help get rid of these nazis
> Twitter: ROUND PROFILE PICS!
this time its
> Users: Please help prevent nuclear war
> Twitter: HOW ABOUT LONGER TWEETS!