Two-thirds of America agrees: President-elect Donald Trump should cut down on Animation Archiveshis Twitter habit.

This is the result of a new NBC/WSJpoll, in which 69 percent of Americans said that Trump on Twitter is a bad idea while 26 percent had no qualms with Trump's 140-character rantsannouncements. The full results of the poll were not shared by either outlet.

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Among Democrats, a whopping 89 percent did not approve of Trump's use of Twitter. But even among Republicans, only 46 percent said Trump on Twitter is a good idea, while 47 percent would prefer him not tweeting.

The poll, which was conducted among 1,000 adults between Jan. 12-15, is not surprising; several earlier polls showed that the majority of Americans want Trump to call it quits on Twitter.

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But this one comes after the president-elect said he would keep using his personal account, @realDonaldTrump, instead of the official @POTUS account, during his presidency.

"I think, I’ll keep it . . . so I’ve got 46 million people right now — that’s a lot, that’s really a lot — but 46 million — including Facebook, Twitter and ya know, Instagram, so when you think that you’re 46 million there, I’d rather just let that build up and just keep it @realDonaldTrump, it’s working," Trump recently told The Sunday Timesin an interview (note that he has combined all his social media followers into one number; his Twitter account has 20.3 million followers).

Trump also cited "dishonest press" among his reasons to stay active on Twitter.

"I don't like tweeting. I have other things I could be doing. But I get very dishonest media, very dishonest press. And it's my only way that I can counteract," he said during an interview on Fox News' Fox & Friends.


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