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Survey Says: POTUS Should Tweet Less

john.eggerton@futurenet.com (John Eggerton) — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:31:00 +0000

A majority of those who voted for Donald Trump for President want him to cut down on his use of Twitter.

That is according to a new poll from Morning Consult/Politico.

The poll found that 51% of respondents say he Tweets too much, up from 37% who said he did so back in December.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said this week that the President's Tweets should be treated as official statements. Those have included that major media are fake news purveyors in league with Democrats and, just this week, a particularly on point observation given the survey: "The FAKE MSM [mainstream media] is working so hard trying to get me not to use Social Media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.

Over the entire sample, 69% said they think he uses Twitter too much, and 59% say that is a bad thing.

An even larger percentage of Trump voters (61%) say it is time for him to shake up his staff, though they are reluctant to point any fingers. Most don't identify individuals they want to get the hook, though Steve Bannon is one the greatest number (27%) were willing to finger, with Trump's daughter Ivanka the most popular, with only 20% saying she should go.

The poll was conducted June 1-2 among 1,999 voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

RNC Tops TV Twitters

john.eggerton@futurenet.com (John Eggerton) — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:58:00 +0000

Not surprisingly, the most-tweeted-about TV show Thursday night was the Republican National Convention coverage -- on various networks -- which drew 2,008,000 tweets from 470,000 unique authors, according to Nielsen Social's Daily Top Five.

Those tweets spiked at 10:48, during the acceptance speech of GOP nominee Donald Trump, when he promised to "fix the system," said Nielsen.

Rounding out the list were CBS's Big Brother at No. 2 with 52,000 tweets from 15,000 uniques; CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (Trump's speech was the lead-in and Jon Stewart made a special appearance, which drew its own tweetstorm later), with 23,000 tweets from 16,000 uniques; Comedy Central's At Midnight with Chris Hardwick with 11,000 from 4,000 uniques; and Fox's season finale of Bones with 10,000 and 3,000 uniques.

A portion of the Bones episode was reportedly pre-empted on the West Coast, so that number could have been affected by that, either prompting more tweets from unhappy fans or fewer, given there was less show to comment on on the West Coast.

Tweets about the shows are captured from three hours before through three hours after each initial broadcast. Unique authors are defined as having a unique Twitter account that sent "at least one tweet ascribed to a specific TV episode."