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LAS14

(13,769 posts)
Wed May 31, 2017, 10:58 AM May 2017

I opened Twitter to look at #covfefe tweets and happened upon this.

This is a perfect poem.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn't.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there's no
room to talk
about it.


And that's the problem! When word clouds from the primaries for Trump and Clinton were compared, Trump had no really large words. Too much nonsense to focus. Hillary's largest was, of course, "e-mail."

p.s. I couldn't figure out how to make a link to the tweet. It was a re-tweet by Clive Thompson @pomeranian99. Can someone tell me how to capture a tweet link? I kept getting links to Amazon for the book.

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I opened Twitter to look at #covfefe tweets and happened upon this. (Original Post) LAS14 May 2017 OP
I think if you click the "three dots" link by it forgotmylogin May 2017 #1
Instructions ... Yonnie3 May 2017 #3
It worked for me .. Yonnie3 May 2017 #5
There is a little down arrow to the right on every tweet Joanie Baloney May 2017 #2
The capitalized first words of each sentence spell out "Taps". dawg May 2017 #7
Right click the time stamp and copy the URL, or click the time stamp and go to the addy bar. L. Coyote May 2017 #4
Here's one from the Philly police that's really well done sharp_stick May 2017 #6

forgotmylogin

(7,520 posts)
1. I think if you click the "three dots" link by it
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:01 AM
May 2017

It gives options like "embed tweet" "direct link to tweet".
I think some people actually are screen capturing, but that requires hosting the picture somewhere (or a premium membership to upload maybe?)
I saw directions how to "embed" a tweet so it shows, but it looked very complicated.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. Right click the time stamp and copy the URL, or click the time stamp and go to the addy bar.
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:12 AM
May 2017

Just paste the URL in your post and the tweet appears magically, thanks to the wizards at DU.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
6. Here's one from the Philly police that's really well done
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:13 AM
May 2017



Roads are still slick from last night's rain. Please use your wipers and drive with covfefe
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