Trump doesn't need to complain about bans to beat Obama on Twitter

The size of his Twitter following weighed heavily on President Trump’s mind in the hours before his Oval Office meeting with the social media firm’s co-founder and CEO.

Why, he wondered via tweet, wasn’t it bigger? Although Trump ranks 13th among the world’s most widely-followed Twitter users, surely he would have more than 59.9 million followers if the San Francisco-based company wasn’t shadow-banning the supporters who catapulted him into the White House three years ago. After all, former President Barack Obama, several notches higher at No. 2, has 105 million.