The Power of Twitter

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BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How did Twitter, invented to allow friends to keep track of each other's social lives and interests, become a key forum for political debate? And what effect has the social media platform had on the nature and quality of public life? Presenter David Baker speaks to the man who taught President Trump everything he knows about Twitter, the head of President Obama's social media campaign, and Twitter's own leader on strategy for public policy, to explore the real effect that it has had on politics.

Producer: Jonathan Brunert

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0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
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0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
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0:52.8	Hi, I'm Riana Dillon.
0:54.8	Welcome to Seriously.
0:57.2	Each week we feature interesting stories told a little sideways
1:02.0	and we have a real treat for you this week.
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