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> Trump uses Twitter but he didn't invite them to the tech summit reportedly for not creating a special trending tag for him.

The word reportedly is really interesting. Was this reported by the same media that was wrong about just about everything this election cycle? Could they somehow be wrong about this too?

PS: Twitter is smaller than the other companies and is perceived as a failing (or at best stagnant) company. While Twitter is an important company online, if you were inviting the biggest companies in tech, there's some logic to not inviting them to that conference.




Yeah that's a fishy reportedly. Better to look at the transcript. Trump: "I won’t tell you the hundreds of calls we’ve had asking to come to this meeting, and I will say, and I will say Peter was sort of saying, ’No, that company’s too small.’ And these are monster companies."

My guess is Peter vetoed Twitter, for sensible reasons.


Thiel has long been contemptuous of Twitter's management:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/twitter-executives-smoke-t...




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