From Bloomberg to Blankfein, rich men are learning to tweet like Trump

Bloomberg is, among other things, competing with Trump on his own terms on social media - and has spent no shortage of money in doing so

Twitter was founded in 2006. Fourteen years later, and perhaps thanks to the influential example of President Trump, the masters of the universe have apparently learned to post to it.

This week alone, a plethora of influential politicians and business leaders have at least attempted to use the social media platform with the same air of casual authenticity coupled with severity that characterises many of Trump’s tweets.

On Thursday, Mike Bloomberg, responded to a taunting tweet from Trump — pitting him against his rival for the Democratic candidacy, Senator Bernie Sanders — by telling Trump that their mutual connections had nothing but