Things are heating up before the Presidential elections in the US as Donald Trump escalated his attack on Twitter following a showdown regarding an earlier tweet. Trump went to the extent of closing Twitter after the social media giants marked some of his tweets with fact-checking labels. Twitter, with its new privacy policies, is trying to make the social media site a cleaner place where people can get the authentic information.

The fact-check warning label didn’t sit too well with Trump as he took to Twitter to express his views that the social media site is silencing the conservative voices. The government would strongly regulate their policies or even close them down if required before the elections. He also cited what Twitter tried to do before the 2016 elections but fell face-first in their attempt.

The voting fiasco

Trump recently tweeted about voting by mail, to which Twitter objected. The social media site considered it an attempt to deceive people as the tweet contained misleading information regarding the voting process. Trump’s campaign was quick to respond to Twitter’s warning, accusing them of “clear political bias.”

Twitter is a platform for people to share their views on different events and a place for entrepreneurs to attract thousands of attention to their products and services. Closing down Twitter would mean cutting down the opportunities of hundreds of businesses to thrive. 

In light of this tumultuous situation, Rantic, a renowned social media marketing company, recommends business owners to try new marketing techniques for their survival. They are calling out entrepreneurs to try increasing their follower base so that their target audience knows where to go to buy their products in case Twitter shuts down in the US.

Repetitive clashes with Twitter

This is not the first time that Trump targeted social media websites, Twitter in particular. Earlier, he even targeted Google for allegedly publishing fake news. Additionally, Trump had also threatened to sue Twitter for being bias against him. He even went on to say that as the President, he wouldn’t let this type of action to continue.

At the White House, the Social Media Summit criticized social media websites for offering controversial information and hushing the voices before the election. This conference represented Trump’s highest-profile broadside that went head to head with Silicon Valley. According to Trump’s campaign, the tech giants were the primary culprits in censoring conservative websites and users. 

During his address to his online allies, Trump said that they were influencers who could easily sway half a billion people before the election. He even called them extraordinary but believed that whatever they thought and reported was uncredible.

With the 2020 election on the line, it’s time to see whether Trump’s exact stance to oppose the actions of Twitter and other social media websites works as his ace in the hole or whether his opposition gains an advantage for his precarious approach to attack social media sites.