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Section size for Social media use by Donald Trump (96 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	20,792	20,792
Background	1,309	2,998
Trump's use of media	1,689	1,689
Twitter	3,689	294,565
Followers	3,587	3,587
Public opinion	2,347	2,347
Rate of tweets	3,480	3,480
Device security	7,079	7,079
Tweets as official statements	4,833	4,833
Timeline	8,275	8,275
Live-tweeting Fox & Friends	2,220	2,220
Insults	3,418	3,418
International threats	28	6,995
2017–2019 Qatar diplomatic crisis	3,812	3,812
Threat to destroy North Korea	1,987	1,987
Threat to destroy Iran's cultural sites	1,168	1,168
Sharing of violent, far-right, and extremist content	1,690	56,622
During campaign	6,867	6,867
CNN wrestling video	7,196	7,196
Britain First videos	20,138	20,138
South Africa	4,324	4,324
Katie Hopkins	2,842	2,842
Allusions to violence in May 2020	2,068	2,068
OANN conspiracy theory	8,372	8,372
"White power" video clip	3,125	3,125
Election claims and grievances	37	16,311
2016 campaign: Trump Tower wiretapping allegations	1,515	1,515
2016 campaign: Investigation into Russian influence	1,810	1,810
2020 campaign: Suggestion of delaying election	4,181	4,181
2020 election: Attempt to overturn results	8,768	8,768
Other controversial tweets	34	57,941
Comments on Sadiq Khan	5,474	5,474
Comments on Morning Joe hosts	7,179	7,179
Joe Scarborough smear	5,715	5,715
Attacks on federal judges, officials, departments and FBI	11,799	11,799
Comments on the Squad	11,841	11,841
Retweeting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory	1,799	1,799
"Liberate" tweets	1,412	1,412
Retweeting unlicensed Linkin Park song	695	695
Calling Trending on Twitter section illegal	2,372	2,372
Tweets on illegal immigrants	4,360	4,360
Tweets about the American suburbs	1,794	1,794
Spread of COVID-19 misinformation	3,467	3,467
Other notable tweets	28	6,095
Announcing positive test for COVID	1,541	1,541
"Covfefe"	4,526	4,526
Tweets during first impeachment	335	11,842
"Civil War" tweet	3,408	3,408
Threats against Representative Adam Schiff and whistleblower	5,300	5,300
Lynching tweet	2,799	2,799
Blocking of Twitter users	8,663	8,663
Effects on litigation	4,564	4,564
Effects on the stock market	4,384	4,384
Deletion of tweets	5,181	5,181
Caution on tweets	1,784	19,044
"Get the facts about mail-in ballots"	5,200	5,200
"Glorifying violence"	8,801	8,801
"Manipulated media"	795	795
"Abusive behavior"	714	714
"Misleading health claims"	933	933
"Misleading about an election"	817	817
Suspensions and deactivations	70	21,588
2017	6,931	6,931
2021	8,370	8,370
Reactions to Trump's suspension	6,217	6,217
Satire and memes	2,287	2,287
Archival	2,821	2,821
Reactions and analysis	6,878	10,054
SuspendThePres	3,176	3,176
Permanent suspension	12,550	12,550
Reinstatement	5,137	5,137
Warrant	3,558	3,558
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Facebook and Instagram	54	10,764
Banned from both platforms	4,664	4,664
Facebook	4,276	4,276
Instagram	1,770	1,770
Reddit	1,933	1,933
YouTube	3,015	3,015
Snapchat	2,432	2,432
Twitch	1,845	1,845
Triller	2,336	2,336
Parler	2,846	2,846
Gab	3,127	3,127
Rumble	941	941
Gettr	1,127	1,127
TikTok	462	462
Self-hosted media activity	1,827	6,409
45office.com	1,980	1,980
From the Desk of Donald J. Trump	2,602	2,602
Truth Social	6,749	6,749
See also	561	561
Notes	3,155	3,155
References	31,765	31,765
Further reading	340	340
External links	2,061	2,061
Total	400,256	400,256

split twitter to seperate article

Due to the substantial size of the twitter section, would it be worth splitting it into its own article? Elizzaflanagan221 (talk) 10:49, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded; handle this according to WP:Summary style; spin off Use of Twitter/X by Donald Trump - Altenmann >talk 18:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Enemy of the people"

Please see Talk:Enemy of the people#Donald Trump. - Altenmann >talk 17:56, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here you go: Donald Trump's conflict the media . It looks nobody else cares. - Altenmann >talk 04:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 August 2024 use tweet ref-name not abuse dummy ref

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This actually shows the clickable ref with the URL and is the proper way to avoid cite errors with multiple tweets. 142.113.140.146 (talk) 11:52, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you for your contributions. — BerryForPerpetuity (talk) 12:31, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Twitter followers?

In the lede, it says he had 88.9 million followers when he was banned from Twitter, but later in the body it says 88.7 million. Both statements are cited, but which is correct? - Adolphus79 (talk) 00:43, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]