I can think of a couple that would likely start a revolution or a civil war in the United States. Policy by twitter always was madness.

You mean the ones he has done so far isn't achieving that already?

No, because there is no direct call to action. But if there were all bets would be off.

I honestly really doubt it. Could you give a few examples of what you were thinking?

100%

And everyone in government will quickly conclude that they can't allow this to happen.

This could be the beginning of the end of social media.

>This could be the beginning of the end of social media.

Please, God, I beg you, let this happen.

I'd be tempted to "donate" some BTC to the scam wallet address if this outcome was guaranteed to happen.

lol my thoughts exactly

Or maybe people will stop believing everything that they hear on the internet.

That’s hyperbole. More like the beginning of the end of elected officials’ use of social media.

That can't come quickly enough.

Maybe that's the plan.

The POTUS should not communicate via social media IMO. But now he has set up the expectation that what we tweets relates to what he will do.

>what [he] tweets relates to what he will do.

More than relates, it is the doing.

"Justice Department lawyer Jennifer Utrecht in her reply acknowledged the president’s tweets are official government statements"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/can-presid...

It’s been close before, the below comes to mind. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/10/asia-pacific/po...

what's going on there, the fact it was a draft tweet - is the implication that north korea can read his draft tweets before they are posted? or could at the time?

That’s a scenario I find much less likely than the hundreds of Trump tweets that would set off domestic violence within minutes.

If Trump would tweet what the fringe communities want to hear (example: Trump tweets that state law enforcement have started rounding up people with Hawaii shirts and confiscating their weapons and should be seen as enemy combatants and engaged on sight. That would turn ugly very quickly).

A well crafted tweet about e.g the Taliban could easily put US soldiers abroad in harms way immediately too.

I think you’re overestimating the number of people in the US who would actually respond decisively to something like that. But it’s more than zero, unfortunately, which is too many.

Yeah I don’t think it would be the start of a civil war but I certainly believe dozens or hundreds of people would become violent.

Up the reaction would be more like "oh look, another stupid Trump tweet."

This is unlikely between nation states. The menagerie of diplomatic officers in every capital city prevents this from happening.

Well armed militia who don’t offer diplomatic representation — they are the ones to worry about.

It would with Trump - because we know his diplomacy runs through Twitter. With other presidents like Obama or Bush (did Twitter exist back then?) I would expect the risk is lower.

Trump's account has additional non-public security measures for this reason.