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Inside The Never-Ending Trump-Clinton Twitter Psychodrama

06/04/2018

Never-reported details reveal how the social network and presidential campaigns stumbled in real time in 2016. Will Twitter learn from the past to do better in the elections ahead? The morning after U.S. voters elected Donald Trump president, Twitter headquarters looked nearly deserted. Many employees, shocked by his...
Never-reported how the social network and presidential campaigns stumbled in real time in 2016. Will Twitter learn from the past to do better in the elections ahead? The morning after U.S. voters elected Donald Trump president, Twitter headquarters looked nearly deserted. Many employees, shocked by his upset over Hillary Clinton, stayed home, apparently too distraught to go to work. Those who ventured into the company’s downtown San Francisco office found an eerie quiet, a visceral pall hanging over the normally buzzy space. “Quite frankly, a lot of us were on the verge of depression,” says an engineer who quit shortly afterward. Recalls a senior employee who also soon left the company, “There were people openly crying at their desks.”Read Full Story
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