David Pierce

David Pierce @pierce

I’ll be on @1a in a few minutes, talking about TikTok and Trump and Microsoft and Apple and who knows what else. Come hang with us! — PolitiTweet.org

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The part of Trump's answer today that I can't get past is when he says the government should get money, "at least having to do with the 30%." Is that an App Store reference? Does it mean ... anything at all? What am I missing here? https://t.co/3eAbIUwKh8 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RobertHPeck: I wrote about the rise and fall of one of @reddit's most frightening—and fascinating—communities for @WIRED. Check it out!… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RMac18: same energy https://t.co/DkMBQgMsQf https://t.co/nCZyWNsDqb — PolitiTweet.org

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@BWechter Ugh, that's the thing! "Not horrible" is high praise for movers — PolitiTweet.org

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@edzitron oh lol that IS helpful, thank you :) — PolitiTweet.org

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@edzitron THANKS FOR YOUR HELP ED — PolitiTweet.org

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"Without explaining how that would work" is a pretty good summation of the White House's entire approach to the tech industry — PolitiTweet.org

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Nothing means anything, everyone's just yelling, this'll all change every 15 minutes until we all forget what the point was in the first place, and that's actually the whole point https://t.co/c7ZSIJlzOg https://t.co/AC98Nwo7qJ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @andersen: For months, @edyong209 has wrangled the pandemic's complex science & politics into 1 journalistic masterwork after another.… — PolitiTweet.org

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I didn't review the Pixel 4a, but it's really good. (Fingerprint readers ftw!) As always @nicnguyen got it right https://t.co/Sxbb9nUgxj — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans have always been weird about how they buy and use phones. I wrote about how 5G and COVID-19 are changing that, and why that means the market for good, cheap phones is about to absolutely explode https://t.co/cwbIfllt37 — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, I didn't review the Pixel 4a, but it's really good. (Fingerprint readers ftw.) As always @nicnguyen is right https://t.co/Sxbb9obRoR — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans have always been weird about how they buy and use phones. I wrote about how 5G and COVID-19 are changing that, and why that means market for good, cheap phones is about to absolutely explode https://t.co/cwbIfllt37 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @benedictevans: I should be writing my newsletter but I’ll read this first. https://t.co/870uDYQZ8s — PolitiTweet.org

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Source tells me TikTok's talked with other companies about an acquisition — people started reaching out after Pompeo's comments a few weeks ago — but Microsoft is farthest along. Also, Trump wants a 100% American-owned TikTok. Full acquisition or nothing. https://t.co/S19k6gYtzn — PolitiTweet.org

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Just updated my story with a fairly fiery statement from TikTok https://t.co/S19k6gYtzn https://t.co/NpuwFYapgU — PolitiTweet.org

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@sougat18 totally! but india has internet and political infrastructure that the US just doesn't — PolitiTweet.org

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I tried to figure out whether Trump's really going to ban TikTok, what "ban" actually means, and whether it's even possible. I'm still not sure, but I'm pretty sure you can't just do it with an executive order https://t.co/S19k6gYtzn — PolitiTweet.org

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@CaseyNewton In fairness teenagers are historically much better at technology than governments, so I feel pretty good about this — PolitiTweet.org

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*Meeting at Microsoft* Exec 1: Let's buy TikTok Exec 2: Don't we suck at social? Remember Mixer and https://t.co/Z70WJpH4Qh and Yammer and the time we paid 8 billion for Skype and then totally ruined it? Exec 1: *Puts on Old Town Road, starts doing the Renegade* Exec 2: I'M IN — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless remember to blink twice if you're being held against your will — PolitiTweet.org

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@jsoltero https://t.co/PSrXe0zD7V — PolitiTweet.org

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I tweet ONE nice thing about Edge, and now it instantly crashes every time I type anything into the address bar. Sup Chrome? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ToniCowanBrown An extremely good way to spend a day, imo — PolitiTweet.org

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@ToniCowanBrown Off the top of my head: Blank Space Love Story All Too Well I Wish You Would Red Then honorable mention to Begin Again, the perfect love song You? — PolitiTweet.org

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I have many feelings about this list, starting with the fact that Back to December is a banger and deserves to be much higher https://t.co/ih6LZg8sbU — PolitiTweet.org

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@bizcarson omg what a good idea! I don't even have to come up with my own deep-sounding nonsense anymore! #thefuture #thinkfluencing — PolitiTweet.org

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@sixfoot6 https://t.co/8KR9f27Wqo — PolitiTweet.org

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Zuckerberg admitted as much yesterday: "Of course when you have tens of thousands of employees, people make mistakes. People have some of their own goals some of the time." But when you combine big-company problems with popular-company problems, you have a whole set of new ones — PolitiTweet.org