well, i think they will maybe get that. that s the same assumption they re going to read the entire report. i don t think everyone was watching this. if i think they were watching it, they won t come away with the same conclusion that attorney general barr reached. it was very pointed, his remarks, in terms of what they found, what their concerns were, but i don t think in the end it will matter nor will it necessarily change the die nam you ca dynamics in congress. only 38 house democrats calling for impeachment, that is less than 20%, and bob mueller seems to forget that people barely read 280 character tweets, let alone 450-page reports. i m not even sure people have read a summary of the mueller report. you shouldn t have to. that s why you have the news media. well, this is 2019. it s just, he may have been the right man for the job but maybe not the right man for the times.
. welcome back. did something feel different about the news cycle this week? it was kind of weirdly calm, right? maybe is that because while president trump was on his high stakes trip in asia, he stayed on script and his twitter feed was pretty calm. but then this happened. look at these brand new 280 character tweets. this was the real trump coming out. shocking tweets about kim jong-un and other topics and of course his troubling comments about russia s attempts to interfere in last year s election. trump was asked on air force one if he trusts vladimir putin s denial of involvement and here s what he said to the press pool. there is no aud i don t or video, but we have the trance scripts. he said every time putin sees me, he says i didn t do that and i believe that when he tells me that, he means it. now, before leaving vietnam, trump held a news conference and
the company has been testing 280 character tweets with a small group of users since september and interestingly, twitter said that after the novelty tweeting more characters wore off, most people in the test group stopped tweeting the full length, 5% of their tweets were longer than 140 characters. the new limit will roll out to twitter users in nearly all of the 40 languages that twitter supports. look out for the president s tweets. look out. i say brevity is the by-product of vigor, the fewer words used better. let s check on the money stream. stocks mixed after the dow hit the fourth closing high in a row and despite starting the day at record levels, they closed a bitter lower. stocks are still going strong after the trump anniversary of the trump bump. look at the chart. ha, ha, look at the chart now.
to not to give it away let s talk about this why is twitter making this change well as you already mentioned sumi this changes coming about after a limited trial also a limited amount of twitter users use the new two hundred eighty characters limit and twitter then released a statement announcing that it was expanding to two hundred eighty characters because it said under the old one hundred forty character limit people were having problems fitting all their thoughts into a single tweet so it also released statistics and saying that nine percent of twitter users were having a problem fitting their thoughts into one hundred forty character tweets but when it did this trial and allowed people more space to tweet if then that only one percent of users run into this problem so one big reason is better user experience and it also said that during its trial these longer tweets got more engagement
american medical association have this to say changes resisted because it is psychologically and physically uncomfortable if your brain feels good when you hold firm to what s known and for miller using science to rationalize why it feels so weird to tweet using two hundred eighty characters. well let s bring in our social media editor all when at to not to give it away let s talk about this why is twitter making this change well as you already mentioned sumi this changes coming about after a limited trial also a limited amount of twitter users use the new two hundred eighty characters limit and twitter then released a statement announcing that it was expanding to two hundred eighty characters because it said under the old one hundred forty character limit people were having problems fitting all those thoughts into a single tweet so it also released statistics saying that nine percent of twitter users were having a problem fitting their thoughts into one hundred forty character tweets