Last night, the person managing Hillary Clinton’s Twitter account wanted to re-tweet an innocuous Vocativ article about how much pizza her staffers eat. And if you access Twitter via desktop or laptop, you saw the tweet for what it was:
Guilty as charged. 🍕 https://t.co/qnKHHsAUE2
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 5, 2015
However, as BuzzFeed’s Sarah Burton discovered, if you access Twitter via mobile, you could bear witness to one of the most unfortunate truncations imaginable:
Instead of running from the issue, as many candidates would, her digital communications manager Rob Flaherty chose to embrace it:
Neither her Democratic nor Republican opponents have ventured to communicate what is powering their campaigns, but we’re sure statements are forthcoming.
