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Why I stopped loving Twitter

Hey all, this is Alice Stollmeyer, from Defend Democracy. I used to love Twitter. No more. Coming from me, that may surprise you. Arriving in Brussels in 2012, I started live-tweeting EU policy events. I loved sharing about my professional passions (at the time climate and energy), about EU politics and about geopolitical and digital…

Digital political advocacy: my journey from the EU to the US to Transatlantic

Twitter can truly connect people. Proof: I am sharing what I told a Brussels’ digital influencer event at the request of my American Twitter friends. Ranked 18th in the league of digital EU influencers, I was asked to prepare a personal presentation in the form of five tweets. As a well-known Brussels’ bubble tweeter (most…

Why I reported @realDonaldTrump to @Twitter – again

Context: Trump’s ongoing attacks on women, press, rule of law As a digital strategist, I’ve been on Twitter almost 24/7 for the last 7 years. I’ve seen it all. Which is probably why I don’t often mute, block or report someone on Twitter. But this is different. I mean: we’re talking about the President of the…

Make Twiplomacy boring again

Even if you’re not on Twitter, you will have seen at least some of US president-elect Donald Trump’s tweets. They make headlines all over the world, causing diplomatic incidents, stock losses and calls for Twitter to suspend Trump’s account for inciting fear and hate. For Putin, the controversies over Trump’s tweets likely come as a…

#OettiGate and #OettingAir: from free flight into free fall

This time, it only took 4.5 hours to claim he did nothing wrong. Just two weeks after global outrage over his racist, sexist and homophobic slur, German EU commissioner Oettinger is in the middle of new media storm for accepting a free trip on a private jet with an unregistered lobbyist nicknamed “Mr Russia”. While Twitter is running…