Friday, 10 June 2016

Hillary Clinton’s viral Twitter burn of Donald Trump

Donald Trump reacted to President Barack Obama endorsing Hillary Clinton on Thursday the same way he’s reacted to approximately 70 percent of developments this election cycle: He sent out a mocking tweet about it.

Hillary Clinton — or rather, whatever set of staffers runs Hillary Clinton’s Twitter account — didn’t have to respond. But they did. And the reaction was, shall we say, yuuuge.

“Delete your account” is a pretty standard joke tweet, especially in political and media Twitter (which both the people writing “Hillary Clinton’s” tweets and the people reading them in the middle of a Thursday afternoon are likely to be familiar with). But this is a well-executed iteration of it.

You don’t tweet “delete your account” in response to an outrageous or offensive tweet, because it’s not a serious demand. So many of the things that Trump tweets (or retweets) wouldn’t be appropriate targets. Rather, “delete your account” is used when someone has tried to be funny on Twitter — for example, by attempting to land a sick burn — and failed. For the full article click here 



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