Governing in the age of social media

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I like that messages can be delivered directly to the people instead of waiting until you sit down in front of a tv to see the news play a short clip in the context they choose. People complain you can only get 140 characters out of a Tweet, but deliver it as a speech and the news only plays a short clip with 140 characters worth of words anyways.

Trump is the first world leader to utilize it in this way so there hasn't been much opportunity to see how it will influence foreign policy and relations. "Rocket Man" may have been the first real instance of this when anything at all was at stake, but Trump used it again in front of the UN so it's more than just a Tweet anyways.