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It is not clear that the president's speeches are intentionally being crafted for Twitter, since one needn't make every single line tweetable in order to have an impact. It is unquestionably true that the high "tweetability" of Obama's public statements and speeches contribute directly to his influence on Twitter. Of the 50 major speeches Yahoo news analyzed, in every case at least half of the lines were under 120 characters.
Curiously, however—and this undermines the case for Twitter's influence—the second inaugural address scored lowest with 53 percent tweetability.
But there is a clear precedent for this sort of adaptation. A 1990 study from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy mournfully noted that the average sound bite from presidential candidates on the evening news had fallen from 42.3 seconds in 1968 and to 9.8 seconds in 1988. "What becomes of democracy when political discourse is reduced to sound-bites, one-liners, and potent visuals?" author Kiku Adatto asked, flexing her finger-wagging muscles.
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