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We may sometimes sigh in quiet desperation about EU leaders’ boring tweets on meetings and handshakes. But politics is serious and boring. (Photo: European Commission (collage by EUobserver))

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Make Twiplomacy boring again

Even if you're not on Twitter, you will have seen at least some of US president-elect Donald Trump's tweets. They make headlines all over the world, causing diplomatic incidents, stock losses and calls for Twitter to suspend Trump's account for inciting fear and hate.

For Putin, the controversies over Trump's tweets likely come as a welcome distraction from his appalling practices in Aleppo. As his parody @DarthPutinKGB says:\n

Although EU commissi...

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Alice Stollmeyer is a digital advocacy strategist at @StollmeyerEU and a member of EUobserver's board. Her Rem@rk@ble column looks at social media trends about the EU.

We may sometimes sigh in quiet desperation about EU leaders’ boring tweets on meetings and handshakes. But politics is serious and boring. (Photo: European Commission (collage by EUobserver))

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Alice Stollmeyer is a digital advocacy strategist at @StollmeyerEU and a member of EUobserver's board. Her Rem@rk@ble column looks at social media trends about the EU.

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