Unimaginably Conventional

Dan Faltesek
4 min readApr 13, 2021

Senator John Coryn unleashed the following, crushing Tweet:

The president is not doing cable news interviews. Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters.

What a searing critique: the President’s Tweets are “unimaginably conventional.” Of course this is utterly boring news for anyone who has been following the President: he just isn’t interested in Twitter. For Coryn, this is evidence of only the…

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Dan Faltesek

Associate Professor of Social Media, Oregon State: These are my opinions, not theirs. Read my book: Selling Social Media (Bloomsbury Academic), 2018.