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Trump announced new chief of staff through twitter

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Reince Priebus will go down as the shortest-serving White House chief of staff in the history of the United States. President Donald Trump announced Priebus was out of the job on Friday evening, and that Trump had replaced him with Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.  The president heralded the end of Priebus's term with a few tweets sent from Air Force One, after Priebus had already disembarked the plane.  I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017 ...and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017 I would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together and I am proud of him! — Donald J. Trump (@re...

A Million plus Americans quit Twitter

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Controversial presidential announcements and celebrity revenge porn are all in a day's work for the social network everyone loves to hate. Now, Twitter has announced its most recent financial results and things aren't looking good for the microblog beloved by the leader of the free world. On the money side, Twitter managed to lose $116 million in the quarter, a little more than the $107 million it lost this time last year. If you compare the $535 million it pulled in from advertisers in Q2 2016, the $489 million it made in Q2 2017 doesn't look great, either. The company believes that losses will be trimmed in the future, and the figures were only big because of some one-off charges. Then there's the issue of user growth, and Twitter thought that it had turned a corner at the start of the year, possibly thanks to our 45th president. Back in April, the company was crowing about a 14 percent bump in the number of monthly active users on the service -- which had incr...