Months after Donald Trump credited Twitter for his Presidential win, social media site's co-founder apologises
Evan Williams issued the apology during an interview with The New York Times
While US President Donald Trump in an interview credited social media site Twitter for its role in him assuming office, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams apologised for the role the site played.
In an interview published Saturday in The New York Times, Williams discussed the president’s March claim to Fox News that “I think that maybe I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Twitter.”
“It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that,” Williams told the Times. “If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”
During the March interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Trump also said he has “my own form of media” and boasted of 100 million social media followers. Trump has nearly 30 million followers on his personal Twitter account, and there are more than 17 million people who follow the official @POTUS account.