President Donald Trump News: POTUS Uses New 280-Character Limit Twitter to Update Followers of his Activities in South Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken advantage of Twitter's move to double its character limit for tweets as he updated his followers of his activities in South Korea.
While the POTUS (President of the United States) is known for speaking his mind on Twitter, many were surprised that he did not use the expansion of the character limit of Twitter on the number of characters to throw shade on some individuals or issues. Rather, Trump made use of the now-280 character limit to give his followers a hint of what he was doing while on a state visit in South Korea.
"Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory," Trump said on 216 character tweet last Tuesday night, Nov. 7.
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According to a report of USA Today, Trump has tweeted 2,461 times as of last night, including tweets and retweets since the election on Nov. 8, 2016. This means that the POTUS tweeted around six or seven times a day within the period. As his tweets were often characterized by name calling, the unceremonious firing of his people, policy proposals, or simply feuding with others, many thought that he would take advantage of new character-limit of Twitter to lambast issues or people anew.
While the POTUS' has made numerous tweets since election day last year, the record is significantly less as compared to the number of tweets he made the prior period. Between Nov. 8, 2015, and Nov. 8, 2016, the then-private citizen Trump tweeted 4,994 times, or an average of about 13-14 tweets a day.
Meanwhile, Twitter has said that the experiment it conducted last September that doubled the number of its character limits revealed that users were not abusing the expansion. According to the micro-blogging site, people who had access to the feature only exceeded the original 140-character limit at five percent of the time and only more than 190 characters at 2 percent of the time.
