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  Newsmakers   24 Jan 2017  Trump appears first on searching ‘a**hole’ on Twitter

Trump appears first on searching ‘a**hole’ on Twitter

THE ASIAN AGE
Published : Jan 24, 2017, 12:26 pm IST
Updated : Jan 24, 2017, 2:03 pm IST

When the search was limited to ‘people’ section on Twitter, Donald Trump’s profile appeared at the first position.

US president Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)
 US president Donald Trump. (Photo: AFP)

Social media website Twitter is showing account of 45th President of the US, Donald Trump, on searching the term ‘a**hole’ on the website.

The search was originally discovered by Don Amaro, a Twitter user. He revealed the search results to the Mashable saying he found it while searching for one of his tweets which reads “a*hole not welcome to our island.”

Donald Trump on Twitter

In our independent search as well we found Donald Trump’s Twitter account to pop up at first among other tweets. On drilling down further, when the search was limited to ‘people’ section on Twitter, Donald Trump’s profile appeared at the first position.

Donald Trump on Twitter

Amaro, who works as a social media editor and web administrator in Portugal, after the search he made on the social media site concluded that Twitter search doesn’t solely rely on keywords in the account or description, instead it rely on what is in associated tweets.

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