Following the United States President (Donald Trump) tweet threatening North Korea, Twitter did not remove the “newsworthy” tweet but has said it will review and update its rule on the ground that a tweet can be deleted from the platform or allowed to stay (newsworthiness). This is to make the rule for deleting post clear to users.
Twitter has also said that the policy has always been an internal policy but they will update their public policy soon enough to reflect the changes and update.
There has been an argument since last year primaries in the US over whether Twitter should ban Trump’s account or at least delete some of his tweets, as most of them are targeted and unfriendly to some individuals.
Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017
The North Korea has said it saw the US President’s tweet as a call for war. Twitter has been expected to act based this malicious tweet but has done nothing calming that the tweet is newsworthy.
Twitter’s response, however mainly implies that the US President’s Account will never be reviewed and that anything that Trump tweets is newsworthy.
This problem of newsworthiness has not only been faced by Twitter, Facebook has had similar experience last year. Twitter’s newsworthiness is really good but the conditions for newsworthiness should be reviewed, made public and made sure that it applies to every account holder on the platform. Twitter said they have tried in keep the policy as best as they can but now that the policy will be made public everybody will get to know how fair it is implemented on those that will fail the rule.
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