Okay, so here’s how this went down.

First thing that happened was that Ari Fletcher, George W Bush’s former press secretary, saw a tweet by President Barack Obama and was all “oh no, you di-int.”

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The only thing was, President Obama’s tweet was most certainly not over 140 characters. Count for yourself and you get 136 characters.

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So, there was that.

Fletcher admitted he was wrong but I imagine that he’s sure it wasn’t his fault.

The next thing that happened was that Public Policy Polling polled people and happened to ask if people thought that President Obama got to use more than 140 character on Twitter.  PPP often does fun stuff like that.

The poll showed that 13 percent of GOP primary voters think Twitter does permit Obama to exceed the 140 character limit while a majority — 52 percent — said they weren’t sure. Thirty-six percent said they don’t think Obama enjoys a larger character limit than the rest of Twitter users.

Little know fact:  57% of Republican voters believed that Tweet is what Miley Cyrus did on tv.  The rest thought we should invade Iraq to make Miley Cyrus stop doing that.

Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.