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Trump has recently been unbanned from Twitter. Can Misplaced Pages please update the article? ] (]) 01:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC) Trump has recently been unbanned from Twitter. Can Misplaced Pages please update the article? ] (]) 01:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

== Number of Twitter followers ==

Right now, the 1st paragraph of the lede says: "When Twitter banned Trump from the platform in January 2021 during the final days of his term, his handle '''@realDonaldTrump''' had over 88.9 million followers." Trump was just unbanned, and when I checked his handle on Twitter just now, he has 72.3 million followers.

I'm guessing the drop over the last 2 years is because many accounts were bots and those handles no longer exist on the platform. The undesirability of bots was a big theme in Elon Musk's 2022 purchase of Twitter. Twitter may have deleted them, or else their operators got bored of them.

It seems that, if we state the old number of followers, we should also mention the new number. But does the number need to be interpreted? ] (]) 12:07, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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    A lot of this article requires editing for conjecture. Second paragraph, first sentence "For most of Trump's presidency, his account on Twitter, where he often posted controversial and false statements," Misplaced Pages should not determine validity of statements made by political figures in public office but only state that said claims are disagreed upon and controversial. I find this excerpt and others like it in this article against the integrity of Misplaced Pages.

    Statement should read: "For most of Trump's presidency, his account on Twitter, where he often posted controversial statements," Wid777 (talk) 05:56, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

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    Subjective wording

    Under the section about Trump's own social media network it says "Trump quietly incorporated..." etc. The word word"quietly" adds a narrative quality to the article and just makes it less objective. I can't edit this page for some reason. Can someone please remove this word from the sentence? 68.118.98.100 (talk) 05:07, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

    Have you checked the source to see if it really backs up the content? -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 05:52, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
    The source is clearly reliable and backs up the sentence, but the wording is too subjective and doesn't mesh with Misplaced Pages's standards. 68.118.98.100 (talk) 21:01, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

    Update

    Trump has recently been unbanned from Twitter. Can Misplaced Pages please update the article? 100.16.152.25 (talk) 01:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

    Number of Twitter followers

    Right now, the 1st paragraph of the lede says: "When Twitter banned Trump from the platform in January 2021 during the final days of his term, his handle @realDonaldTrump had over 88.9 million followers." Trump was just unbanned, and when I checked his handle on Twitter just now, he has 72.3 million followers.

    I'm guessing the drop over the last 2 years is because many accounts were bots and those handles no longer exist on the platform. The undesirability of bots was a big theme in Elon Musk's 2022 purchase of Twitter. Twitter may have deleted them, or else their operators got bored of them.

    It seems that, if we state the old number of followers, we should also mention the new number. But does the number need to be interpreted? Tuckerlieberman (talk) 12:07, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

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