Twittering — not as easy as it seems
Twitter as one of the most popular ways to express one’s thoughts and to share them with the public is not as free of dangers as it may seem. Persons of interest, be it politicians, actors or actresses, sportsmen and -women or others, twitter more or less important things and pictures all the time, but sometimes it might have been better to reread it at least once before they push the send-button. Okay, written words without any given context always can be understood wrong because the reader misinterprets them. But to so many Tweets one can just react with a facepalm because they are so damn stupid (and sometimes simply wrong).
One of the best examples was the German ‘politician’ Beatrix von Storch from the right-wing party AFD, who asked why the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin has not been illuminated in the German colors after the terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market in December, but in other countries’ colors such as Israel’s after the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. The problem was: there actually was an illumination in the German colors, just one day after the attack in Berlin… The reaction to von Storch’s Tweet was as can be expected: Schadenfreude, malice and scoffing commentaries. It might have been better to check whether there has already taken place what she demanded before twittering… Donald Trump is also an expert for hasty Tweets he might regret later, additionally he often makes the mistake that he lets his Tweets become way too personal (and sound like a huffy child sometimes).
Someone doing it much better is Barack Obama. His Tweets as U.S. president have over all the 8 years been free of false accusations, redundancy and never under the belt. The numbers of his followers and re-tweeters speak for themselves, not only in the USA, but all over the world. So maybe some persons of interest should start thinking about whether sensationalism and being personal is necessary to be a ‘good Tweeter’. Obama has been given the title “the real Tweeter-in-chief” — a title that e.g. Donald Trump might never reach…
