12/5/2018

RUDY GIULIANI/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A typographical error in a tweet written by one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers has linked to an anti-Trump prank. Rudy Giuliani wrote Tuesday that the social network had ‘allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message.’ But Giuliani had inadvertently created a hyperlink when he failed to put a space after a period in a Nov. 30 tweet. Web firm designer Jason Velazquez tells The New York Times he saw the link, paid $5 to buy the domain and created a page in about 15 minutes. Those who clicked on the link saw: ‘Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country.’ A Twitter spokesman says the company can’t edit users’ tweets and ‘the accusation that we’re artificially injecting something into a tweet is completely false.'”

The Associated Press, “Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter Typo Leads to Anti-Trump Prank,” The New York Times online, December 5, 2018