Speaking tweet to power

The Murray Tweet index assesses the social media punching power of individual Irish journalists

Twitter’s business model may be in trouble, but its notoriety as a communication platform has been brought to new heights by the presidency of Donald Trump.

Back in 2012, Trump famously tweeted “I love Twitter. . . it’s like owning your own newspaper – without the losses.”

Like many things Trump has said there was perhaps a grain of truth in it, but also a lot of hubris.

So what was true? With ...