I argue that the politics of Twitter unfolds through the complex emotional conditions facilitated by the platform itself, which go beyond conventional understandings of power politics. If tweeting “is coming straight from the horse's mouth” (Hunt cited in US President Trump's use of Twitter illustrates this dynamic well: he was able to cultivate an image of himself and his candidacy as a political outsider not beholden to the institutional or political status quo through “gut-feeling tweeting” (The cultivation of emotional authenticity by Trump did not cease with his taking of office: it has continued to unfold in the high politics realm parallel to conventional foreign policy and diplomatic practices.
The emotional registers Twitter affords not only cultivate emotional authenticity for single users and groups but are also implicated in scale-shifting and new state propaganda and disinformation strategies. Search query Search Twitter. I suggest that emotion is key to the diffusion of information on Twitter. - Twitter Feed. Such engagement can capture the imagination of different publics, including individual Twitter users, domestic lobby groups, diasporas, and activist groups, who all become invested in the communication dynamic between diplomats and policymakers. A Classification of Images Tweeted in One Week in the UK and USAJournal of the Association for Information Science and TechnologySticks and Stones: Comparing Twitter Campaigning Strategies in the European Union ReferendumThe British Journal of Politics and International RelationsLearning to Feel, Learning to Fear? And then that dreaded “awkward silence” will come in, and the whole social interaction will be ruined.It’s important to be able to hold meaningful conversations with people – but it takes practice.If you observe other people’s conversations, you’ll find that they rarely follow a logical sequence from beginning to end. All emotions are catching, and how you feel can influence my own emotions.
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As Brent Steele has shown, states care deeply about their self-image. Examples abound: consider Rwandan President Paul Kagame's 2011 Twitter spat with Twitter is often dismissed as perpetuating unmoderated, irrational communication, characterized by a simplistic and overly negative engagement between one actor and others (Yet the role of Twitter in world politics remains largely undertheorized. This was the case with a brief 2015 exchange between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, when Rouhani conveyed his sorrow over his mother's death via Twitter. A question arises here as to what the turn to Twitter means for conventional structures of power and different levels of communication. And if you aren’t taking control of the information you are consuming on a daily basis, then the information you are consuming is certainly controlling This is especially true since our minds are naturally attracted to the negative. This sculptural system operates with microcontrollers, LEDs, custom software, and metals. That same year, Twitter emerged as an important political tool when the US government requested its creators postpone a scheduled software update to enable communication around the Iranian Green Movement protests. The Emotion Machine's Twitter Profile Summary Source: Trackalytics; id Date Followers (change) Following (change) Tweets (change) Lists (change) Favourites (change) 1: May 8, 2020 While initially developed as a new social media sharing platform for communication between friends, since its inception, Twitter has become the preferred medium through which diplomats and political leaders communicate with their counterparts and wider domestic and foreign publics.