Twitter Suggests Trump When Browsing For ‘A**hole,’ ‘Racist,’ ‘Tiny Hands’

[ditty_news_ticker id=”25027″]

(Daily Caller) Twitter users browsing for words such as “asshole,” “asshat,” “racist,” and “tiny hands” were provided with President Donald Trump’s official social media account.

Other search terms that showed up were “bigot” and “fascist,” according to the New York Daily News.

It is not exactly clear why obscene or critical terms like “asshat” or “racist” lead to recommendations for Trump’s twitter profile. But it’s probably because many mentions of Trump on the social media platform include such explicit words and Twitter’s search algorithm is calculating that those words are connected to his account.

When searching for “tiny hands,” for example, Trump’s account is the first suggestion, despite having nothing within his Twitter bio or profile name including the words “tiny” or “hands.” The account “Tiny Hands Jewelry” and “dj tiny hands,” of course, include those terms.

When searching “asshole” the top recommended accounts included Trump and Asa Akira, according to Tech Crunch. The suggestion for Akira makes sense since she is a pornographic movie star with a Twitter bio that says she has an “award-winning asshole.”

As of Thursday morning, “tiny hands” is the only search query that maintains the recommendation of Trumps’ social media profile.

The Twitter algorithm doesn’t appear to be partisan since former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s account was suggested when searching for the term “corrupt.”

 

When a user typed in the word “liar” into Twitter’s search query, National Public Radio (NPR) appeared.

 

Twitter did not respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s inquiries at the time this article was written.

Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].