Twitter is the most influential factor relating to Donald Trump’s campaign and his connection with the voters. Twitter was founded in 2006 and played a major role in both the 2008 and 2012 elections with over 175 million people using Twitter worldwide. On Twitter, users can tweet up to 140 characters and these tweets can be retweeted by other users. Retweets allow for a candidate’s message to reach more people and thus are very important. Currently, Donald Trump has tweeted over 33 thousand tweets that reach 12 million followers. Trump’s influential media presence contributes to his popularity as the Republican presidential candidate. Another important feature of Twitter is the hashtag. People use it as a search engine to look up what topics
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Even though Twitter has both negative and positive aspects, it is so influential to political campaigns, like Trump’s, that the Library of Congress began archiving every public tweet since Twitter was established. Twitter, along with other social media sites, accurately indicates the public’s opinion because it allows for a bigger sample of people’s views. Although, a group’s tweets and opinions on Trump is not necessarily positive, it will still accurately represent their views. Twitter is a free social media site that allows anyone to create an account as long as they have internet access. Optimists of social media’s use believe that internet sites, like Twitter, have increased the involvement of politically inactive groups and have allowed their input to contribute to the public’s general opinion on Trump’s campaign. For example, the younger generations, people with less income or historically less politically involved groups, are more likely to participate on Twitter. This is helpful for Trump because it allows people across all demographics to be …show more content…
This has an effect on Trump’s campaign because Twitter makes it appear that Trump has a higher percentage of support than he actually does in real life. Another problem with using Twitter for determining voter preference is that Twitter is more anonymous than a face-to-face conversation which results in a willingness for users to share their negative views. On Twitter, users can isolate themselves based on their political views by controlling which candidates they want to follow. This is detrimental to tolerating other views and supports the idea of partisan polarization. Partisan polarization is the idea that voters only seek out information that agrees with their personal beliefs and avoid information that does not support these ideas. Lastly, Twitter is a poor indicator of voter preference because not all users can or will not vote in the presidential
Even though Twitter has both negative and positive aspects, it is so influential to political campaigns, like Trump’s, that the Library of Congress began archiving every public tweet since Twitter was established. Twitter, along with other social media sites, accurately indicates the public’s opinion because it allows for a bigger sample of people’s views. Although, a group’s tweets and opinions on Trump is not necessarily positive, it will still accurately represent their views. Twitter is a free social media site that allows anyone to create an account as long as they have internet access. Optimists of social media’s use believe that internet sites, like Twitter, have increased the involvement of politically inactive groups and have allowed their input to contribute to the public’s general opinion on Trump’s campaign. For example, the younger generations, people with less income or historically less politically involved groups, are more likely to participate on Twitter. This is helpful for Trump because it allows people across all demographics to be …show more content…
This has an effect on Trump’s campaign because Twitter makes it appear that Trump has a higher percentage of support than he actually does in real life. Another problem with using Twitter for determining voter preference is that Twitter is more anonymous than a face-to-face conversation which results in a willingness for users to share their negative views. On Twitter, users can isolate themselves based on their political views by controlling which candidates they want to follow. This is detrimental to tolerating other views and supports the idea of partisan polarization. Partisan polarization is the idea that voters only seek out information that agrees with their personal beliefs and avoid information that does not support these ideas. Lastly, Twitter is a poor indicator of voter preference because not all users can or will not vote in the presidential