The New York Times: “When Donald Trump entered office, Twitter was a political tool that had helped get him elected and a digital howitzer that he relished firing. The Times examined how, in the years since, he has fully integrated the social media platform into the very fabric of his administration…Early on, top aides wanted to restrain the president’s Twitter habit, even considering asking the company to impose a 15-minute delay on Mr. Trump’s messages. But 11,390 presidential tweets later, many administration officials and lawmakers embrace his Twitter obsession, flocking to his social media chief with suggestions. Policy meetings are hijacked when Mr. Trump gets an idea for a tweet, drawing in cabinet members and others for wordsmithing. And as a president often at war with his own bureaucracy, he deploys Twitter to break through logjams, overrule or humiliate recalcitrant advisers and pre-empt his staff. “He needs to tweet like we need to eat,” Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, said in an interview…”

• See also via The New York Times – In Trump’s Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies – “We look inside the alternate reality of the president’s Twitter account, where he absorbs and amplifies a noxious stream of disinformation” and What Happens When Ordinary People End Up in Trump’s Tweets – “From an audience of 11 followers to 66 million: the chaos and the compliment of getting a signal boost from @realdonaldtrump.”