I can only assume that someone saw my tweet and objected to it because as you see, there was no text that a computer algorithm could flag:
This was a repost of a clearly satirical image which is attributed to Occupy Democrats, an organization with a Twitter account that has almost 58,000 followers:
The brothers who founded Occupy Democrats were profiled in The New York Times. The story focuses on their Facebook page (here). Between April 17 and May 17, when this article was published, nearly half of the 40 top-performing videos on Facebook that mention “Trump” were from Occupy Democrats.
Apparently the tweet below passed muster because I clearly included “DON’T DO THIS” in my image:
I have posted quit a few Trump Covid tweets with images I created. In all modesty I think that compared to what Trump tweets and thinks are ever so clever, mine actually are.
I have a bit of a compulsion to write and thanks to Daily Kos have been able to satisfy this urge, as of today, 1112 times. However, when I try to compose an original story it takes some work to try to put together words, sentences, and paragraphs in a sensible way. On the other hand making illustrations is fun even though some of them take more time to construct than coherent prose for a story.
This one took about 50 steps because all of the elements in it had to be found online and put separately into the picture which began just with the Oval Office desk.
I won’t fill up this story with all my Covid-19 related illustrations. Here are nine of them.
On Twitter a user can see how many people view a tweet, called impressions, and how many people interact with them. For example this one about Trump firing inspectors general:
This was seen 669 times. It is meant to show how Trump views the virus compared to how the virus views him.
The hashtags in the text of a tweet determine how many people see them, so when I post one I try to use trending hashtags. I admit I keep hoping that one of my tweets will be included in an article that includes selected tweets from ordinary tweeters, for example “Rudy Giuliani’s Cryptic Single-Character Tweet Sparks All Kinds Of Speculation” featured lots of tweets mocking him. Articles about Trump’s tweets like this “Trump buried for threat to turn weapons and ‘vicious dogs’ on DC protesters: ‘You love this violence’” always include tweets made in reply to him on his Twitter account.
It’s possible one of my ever so clever or snarky tweets already has been included in an article. After all, I don’t read everything published online.