Twitter is digging its own grave

Now, however, they have claimed the title of content provider by providing editing services to tweets based on their own judgment. And that means they re responsible for every single tweet that sees the light of day. They are no longer the innocent providers of access to a popular social media outlet. They are publishers, determining what viewers will or won t see and how the message will be shaped. There are literally hundreds of millions of tweets far worse than Donald Trump s that go up every day and they won t be able to police them all. And that opens them up to a full range of possible legal problems.

Twitter could have stayed on the sideline and avoided this trap. If they really think that the President s tweets are so misleading or terrible, they could have let the community make that decision and essentially leave Trump free to hoist himself on his own petard. But now that they ve put on their editor s hat, a new game is afoot. And I doubt they re going to enjoy it.

via hotair.com

Twitter is, to use words I heard as a college student, a stinking sewer of petty hatreds. Therefore, I visit it only occasionally, where I retweet things and am ignored. Still, people seem to like it.