Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart just joined Twitter – screen name: @jon_actual; followers: 845,800 and counting, quickly – and he is already marking controversial ground, establishing low expectations and suggesting that he is treading a path for the presidency.
Your first tweet, posted on Thursday, weighs in on the GME GameStop,
saga, siding with Reddit users who have joined in an effort to break the backs of hedge funds and others who sell video game retailers.
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Stewart’s second tweet promised that his presence on the social media platform would be sporadic and ineffective, and the third, agreeing with the acceptance of his first tweets, concluded that it is time to start measuring for curtains in the Oval Office.
Stewart ended his 16-year season at Comedy Central in 2015 and has since defended the first 9/11 respondents and their families, as well as military veterans and film and TV production contracts with companies like HBO and later Apple. AAPL,
And with that, Stewart surpassed Twitter’s 855,000 TWTR,
followers.
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