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goobster  ·  2659 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump - Will it be awful? Will it be successful? What are your predictions?

Here's an off-the-wall idea: I think Trump will kill Twitter.

Twitter has pretty much always been useless. I've been in marketing for over 10 years, and there has never once been an ounce of data that backed up any sort of Twitter campaign.

But people kept doing it because... well... people kept doing it. (And FOMO.)

Now the essential uselessness of Twitter is illustrated every single day by Trump tweeting out things that are so entirely baseless and childish, that the entire platform is beginning to look like a joke, even to diehard fans of it.

It will be funny when Twitter finally does go tits up, and The Donald doesn't have that outlet any more... I expect he will begin raging around the White House, hurling lamps at paintings, because he has no other outlet for his tiny-dick rage.