Welp, Trump has embraced Twitter's new 280-character limit
President Donald Trump took advantage of Twitter's expanded character count on Tuesday — but the excess words didn't really add much.
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He used 216 characters to let everyone know he was about to make a speech in South Korea and then travel to China. Riveting stuff.
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.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017
But the old 140-character Twitter would've worked just fine to get his pretty boring point across. Here's what his tweet should've looked like:
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.
Instead Trump added a politically charged comment about China's president, considering his re-election wasn't the most democratic process. It looks like more spacious tweets leave room for more controversial statements.
President Trump first expanded tweet is 216 characters #280characters pic.twitter.com/b3oIiR0V3L
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) November 8, 2017
Trump really embraced the long tweets. Within an hour of his first 140-plus tweet, Trump sent out another one. This tweet contained 215 characters about the Virginia gubernatorial election.
Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017
Looks like Trump is already getting used to 280 characters.
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