President Donald Trump is a big fan of social media including the microblogging site owned and operated by Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR). The President of the United States, who is unhappy with the media, said an interview with Fox News in March that Twitter helped him win the election. In response to Trump’s statement, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologized for the microblogging site’s role in Trump’s electoral win, according to a report from Business Insider.
Trump told Tucker Carlson in the interview that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram give him his own “form of media” to talk directly to the people.
“The news is not honest, much of the news. It’s not honest, and when I have close to 100 million people watching me on [social media], I have my own form of media,” Trump said.
Talking about Twitter, the President said:
“Well, let me tell you about Twitter. I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Twitter.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Williams said he’s sorry for Twitter’s role in putting Trump in the White House.
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” Williams said. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
Williams runs his own blogging site Medium. He is a member of Twitter’s board as well as a major shareholder of the company.
Recently, Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) Jack Dorsey said that Trump’s tweets are good for the world and he should keep using the microblogging site to express his thoughts.
Dorsey believes that there is no better way than Twitter to hold global leaders accountable. He is a favor of Trump using Twitter to talk to the public – and that’s good for his company, too.
“I believe it’s really important to hear directly from our leadership,” Dorsey told NBC. “And I believe it’s really important to hold them accountable. And I believe it’s really important to have these conversations out in the open, rather than have them behind closed doors.