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Is Trump Still Tweeting From His Unsecured Android Phone?

If so, he’s extremely vulnerable to being hacked.
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

There are two personalities on display in Donald Trump’s Twitter feed. One Trump generally spells things correctly, tweets flattering news stories, and politely thanks visitors for meeting with him. The other Trump is easily provoked, capitalizes random words, and lashes out in real time at things that annoy him.

These two genres of tweets generally come from two different devices—an Android phone and an iPhone—and thus presumably from different people. Last year, David Robinson, a data scientist at Stack Overflow, months of Trump’s timeline and found that tweets from the Android phone were far more negative than the bland iPhone tweets. Trump uses, suggesting that he was behind the angrier tweets; the iPhone tweets probably came from staff.

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