What Trump's Twitter feed looks like

Social media offers you a river of information and updates catered to your tastes and preferences. It's not unusual to follow people who share your beliefs and political views. But for President Donald Trump, the highly selective list of people that make up his feed yields not just affirmation of his beliefs, but of the man himself.

CNET spent a week following a feed made up of the 46 accounts that Trump follows to get a snapshot of what his worldview looks like through the lens of Twitter. While Trump likely gets his information from a wide variety of sources, from cable news to his White House daily briefings, it's undeniable that Twitter plays a key role, as evidenced by the roughly 200 tweets and retweets of himself and others he sent out last week.

Trump actually displays many of the same patterns in social media usage that researchers have registered concerns about, mainly through the creation of a nearly air-tight echo chamber that tells him he's doing a great job and reinforces the issues he already prioritizes.

The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The effects of such an echo chamber could range from never having beliefs challenged to digging into outright untrue beliefs -- posing even more of a problem in an era where misinformation can easily spread without scrutiny on social media. And for someone in a leadership position, all of this can impact the decision making that affects millions of people.

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