Trump s tweets are newsworthy , will stay: Twitter

San Francisco Sep 26 (IANS) As twitteratis wondered why the micro-blogging platform did not remove US President Donald Trump s latest controversial tweet on North Korea that clearly violated its guidelines Twitter has given a confusing reply.

Trump tweeted last weekend: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at UN. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man they won t be around much longer!"

People wondered why Twitter did not remove the tweet that violated the company s rules.

Reacting to this Biz Stone Co-founder of Twitter posted on Monday night: "Some of you have been asking why we haven t taken down the Tweet mentioned here.

"We hold all accounts to the same Rules and consider a number of factors when assessing whether Tweets violate our Rules.

"Among the considerations is its newsworthiness and whether a Tweet is of public interest. This has long been internal policy and we ll soon update our public-facing rules to reflect it. We need to do better on this and will " Stone said in the post.

Later a company spokesperson told Recode that Twitter s post was not confirming that Trump s tweet violated its rules.

"Just that newsworthiness is one factor that is used internally to determine whether or not to take something down " the report said quoting the spokesperson.

Twitter has never acknowledged publicly that Trump has violated any of its guidelines.

CEO Jack Dorsey has also defended Trump s tweets.

"I believe it s really important to have these conversations out in the open rather than have them behind closed doors " Dorsey had said in May.

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