Is Twitter Now Going To Become A Political Weapon?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38497898
You've got to hand it to the Trumpster! He's put the fear of god into Ford on this one and their response was indeed swift.

[douglas9401]

The Donald might want to step away from the smart phone lest he find a horses head in his bed.
Big business won't take his blundering bullying for ever.

[ichkeria]

Does anyone not think that a businessman using his nascent political power to threaten a political business rival is somewhat shabby?

He'll be impeached by year's end. That is my hope anyway

[Hopkirk]

It's all going to end in tears

[ToraToraTora]

you have to do something iffy/illegal to get impeached ich, ask Bill C!

[Jackdaw33]

...or ask Richard Nixon.

[youngmafbog]

Some people just dont like it when the will of the people Trumps their blinkered right-on views do they?

[ToraToraTora]

"......when the will of the people Trumps their blinkered right-on views...." - Saw what you did there YMB!

[andy-hughes]

TTT - if you think that any major international conglomerate makes a far-reaching business decision on the basis of what the President-Elect writes on Twitter, then I would suggest that you don't know very much about business, or politics.

This Twitter message will have been the end of the procedure, not the beginning!

Everything will have been discussed and buttoned up long before Mr President-Elect got his little fingers on his keyboard to make it look like one tweet from him and the business world trembles!

Nice image - just not an accurate indication of the way the world works.

[ToraToraTora]

whatever Ford back tracked.

[andy-hughes]

Yes they did - but not because president Elect Rump posted a Twitter message!

So the short answer to your question is - No.

[Gromit]

Trump has never held any political office and he is in for a nasty shock. The bullying will come back and and bite him. Politics is about making friends, the right friends. Trump seems to delight in making enemies. That will be his demise.

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - I have posted previously that Mr Trump is about to enter a very different world from the one he has ruled thus far.

In his business empire, he says, they do, which is fine. No-on ever says, actually Mr Trump, you can't do that, I am going to stop it from happening ...

In his new role, he is going to come up against people like that every minute of every day - they are called Congress.

You can tell from the way he spoke in his campaign speeches and the way he speaks in conversation, that Donald is strictly transmit and no receive - and that is going to be changed for him.

[Gromit]

Andy-hughes,

You may find this interesting.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geEVwslL-YY

[andy-hughes]

Gromit - fascinating, thanks so much. I don't 'do' social media, but the insights were most informative.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - having seen Gromit's link, I would like to change the answer I posted to your question from 'No', to 'Quite Possibly'.

[Ninefingers]

Twitter has been a political tool since it started, what's held it back for mainstream stuff is the social media policies our politicians generally abide by. Some of the arguement on here is like tots teaparty compared to some twitter spats

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
Gromit - fascinating, thanks so much. I don't 'do' social media, but the insights were most informative.



ironic?

[Bazile]

It was easy for Trump to make all sorts of pronouncements pre the election ; that sounded good to his followers ; it did not matter , because he did not think that he would win . Even one of his close friends stated that he did not really wanted to be the president

Already , ( to the annoyance of many of his supporters ) even before taking over the reins , he has had to backtrack on most .

The problem is that the US is a true democracy ; and unlike some so called ,democracies he will soon realise that he can't impose his will and do what he wants , regardless .

Being commander in chief is not like running one of his companies , where the employees tug their forelocks as they enter his presence ; and he should realise that by now – in fact it is worrying if he has not so realised

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //andy-hughes
Gromit - fascinating, thanks so much. I don't 'do' social media, but the insights were most informative.



ironic? //

If you can find irony in that post, please feel free to educate the rest of us, since I would suggest you are the only reader who did.

[Ninefingers]

The irony here Andy-Hughes is that this is a form of social media that you "do". Any forum or website where people interact online falls under the social media banner