The service is essentially a powerful search engine and database that keeps track of every paper submitted to it — now some 60,000 a day, according to John Barrie, the company president, with usage doubling every 12 months or so.
Twitter's advertising business is stalling, but the company is trying to focus on some flashes of improvement among the service — which it's attributing to product changes, and not just to major events like presidential debates or the President's usage of Twitter.
A typical commentary-type hashtag might look like this: "Sarah Palin for President??!? #Iwouldratherhaveamoose" This usage totally subverts the original purpose of the hashtag, since the likelihood of anyone searching the term "Iwouldratherhaveamoose" is next to zero.
There were some questions as to whether President Donald Trump's usage of Twitter would be something that would a big driver for Twitter's growth — along with the heavy usage of Twitter throughout the U.S. presidential election.
The president controls the usage of our nuclear weapons and the largest surveillance apparatus ever employed.
Misspoke, as in the usage "the president misspoke," is a verb back-formed from the aforementioned "misspoken".
We need hardly single out the president for such common usage to appreciate that it sits uneasily with placing so much weight on another solitary word, "citizen".
"Given the term's ubiquity and its regular usage by President Trump, it is clear that Collins's word of the year is very real news".
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt declined to comment on the fluctuation in the president's rate of usage, but said the reelection campaign has "always thought that the essential question voters were asking during this election was, 'Who's got the best vision to restore economic security for the middle class, which had begun to slip away even before the economic crisis?'".
How does this usage compare to presidents before and after their term in office?
