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by luckylion 2072 days ago
Wait, on the one hand there's the perception of "Trump just tweets whatever comes to his mind", and on the other hand he/whoever actually runs it is drafting tweets, they're purposefully leaking these drafts to NK to gather what they'd feel like if that was sent? That doesn't seem to fit together.
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I don’t have the means (or time or interest) to do this analysis myself, but it has been claimed that half that accounts’ tweets are him personally and the other half are a team: http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/
It’s already been documented that there is a Twitter guy who works closely with Mr. Trump who originates most of the tweets and then gets approval to send them. It was kind of a big deal because he has his own office very close (physically) to the Oval Office. There was a profile of him done a few years ago. I think it was on CBS News.
Was he a Twitter employee? I just remember it as some WH kid who had a converted closet as an office.
"Twitter guy" could mean "person whose job is to post on twitter.com" rather than "person employed by Twitter, Inc."
"That doesn't seem to fit together" is what I have been feeling for 4 years.