Apple HomePod Q&A + Your Tech Questions Answered

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As you can see here on my desk if you're watching on the live stream, I've got Apple's new home pod. This is a three hundred and fifty dollars smart speaker. So this is Apple's answer to Alexa from Amazon, the Echo also Google Home and let's see, is there anything else out there? I think that's pretty much it for now, and also so nos I guess too. But this is

Super premium.

I mean, obviously you're paying a lot of money for this thing, so it is going to be really nice. The just the way it all sets up and everything very simple, very easy to use. You literally hold your iPhone next to this thing and it sets itself up through your iPhone. It's very slick. They did a really nice job. So for three hundred and fifty dollars, what do you get, Well, you get a speaker that sounds really good.

Then you also get a.

You know, all the home assistant stuff so you can ask Siri questions. So let's try a question. Hey Siri, what's the weather like in Los Angeles?

It's currently clear and eighty four degrees in Los Angeles, California. Your pictures are heading down from eighty four degrees this afternoon to sixty tonight. My weather data is provided by the weather channel.

Oh well, thank you.

I don't know, let me know if you can hear that, because I can turn her up louder if you need to. There's actually a little touch touch thing up here. Oh it's playing music, so you can see the top. When you press play, you actually get some plus and minus so you can adjust the audio.

On there, and it gets it gets really loud. I mean, I don't know if you can hear that this thing, so maybe we should go in there more so.

Every bit of music that I've heard through this thing so far sounds really really good. And again you can ask you questions like, hey, Siri, how many ounces in a gallon?

One gallon is one hundred and twenty eight fluid ounces.

Yeah, so I will tell you this.

I'm gonna have my full report on this on KTLA tomorrow morning, but I will tell you this that I listened to this thing against the Google Home Max, the Amazon Echo, and the sons. Now I have Sonos all over the place. I love my Sonos speakers. I thought those sounded so good until I've heard this. And let me give you the ranking. So now my new ranking is HomePod, then Google Home Max. That's the big one that also sells I think that's four hundred bucks. Then you've got Sons and then Amazon Echo.

So here's the deal.

Yeah, the Amazon Echo definitely did not sound as good next to this thing. But if you're listening to them isolated, like as in you're not listening to them all at the same time, you're really not gonna know the difference.

This just really blows them away.

When you have it next to them and you're I listened to the same song skipping among the speakers, and you could definitely tell that the home Pop has done its homework because it sounds fantastic. Now, is it worth three hundred and fifty dollars? That's the big question, because really the only music service you can use through this natively is Apple Music, and that costs ten dollars a month.

Now, I get it.

A lot of people pay for Spotify and Pandora and iHeart whatever, but that's the only native app. So when you ask Siri to play a song, Hey Siri, Hey Siri, Oh she's listening on my phone. Hey Siri, play blood Pop justin Bieber Friends.

Sorry, Okay, so.

For some reason she's answering on my phone when she should be answering here, but usually she should answer on the proper device. I've noticed that's kind of a problem in general with all of these smart home devices.

If you have a couple of.

Them around, they all kind of answer or they want to answer at the same time. These engineers really have their work cut out for them to make the right thing answer. Let's try that one more time. Hey, Siri, play some justin Bieber.

Sure, here's a personalized station of justin Bieber.

Okay, there you go, So there's playing music. Okay, Now, let me show you the back of this because you okay. So, if you want to use a different music service, like let's say you want to use iHeartRadio or Pandora, you can use your phone to basically airplay that to the speaker.

And we did that with Spotify.

It sounded fantastic, but that is not an ideal setup. Number One, your phone has to be actively in use. Whereas if you use Apple Music on here, it's pulling from Wi Fi, so it's streaming from the cloud, which means you can start music and leave the house with your phone and still be fine, or someone can come

That's it.

It's airplay, and that's basically it. Maybe Bluetooth. I'm not sure if you can bluetooth something. It does not show up in my list of Bluetooth items right now, but it does airplay pretty easily. And the only other thing I thought was kind of weird is that this does not disconnect.

So this little.

Wire right here is permanently in there. So let's look at what you guys are saying. Let's see so Barry says he's going to look into Google Home. Max Peter says it's awesome. Too bad it's Apple only. Ruby says, which I can afford it, it is expensive, and let's see here.

What else.

Laurie says, Well, it talk to my Apple TV and play audio while movies are playing. Theoretically you could get it to do that because you could airplayer Apple TV for this device.

That would be a little bit complicated, but you can. You can do that for sure. So yeah, so there you have it. There's the Home pod.

But again, you can do a lot of cool stuff with it. I think for three hundred and fifty dollars, this is a premium buy. This is for someone who loves Apple. They're in the Apple ecosystem. I assume that Apple thinks people are going to sign up for Apple Music to get this speaker, but I think it's the opposite. If you already have Apple Music, which a lot of people do, you're gonna be like, all right, well that works with Apple Music.

I already use that.

I already have an iPhone, I already have an iPad, I have a MacBook.

Let me get their speaker.

But that's a premium buy, especially if you're looking at getting one of these in a different room. Let's say you want it in two rooms. Well, guess what, now you're looking at seven hundred bucks. But there could be other things going on here.

Apple could come out with.

A smaller version, which we can see, and that might be cheaper as well. So all right, I'm gonna open up the phone lines three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. You can ask a question about the home pod, or any question that you want. Joe says, it seems way too limited to be worth the money right now.

And you know it's it's one of those things. It's it's gonna appeal to certain people.

You know. I could see this being placed in a lot of apartments. So if you're kind of a maybe a single person that has an apartment and you just want a really cool, slick looking speaker, Yes, that sounds good. I can see it in like a lot of kind of restaurants, cafes, like an art gallery type place anywhere that there's a priority for design and sound.

That's where this speaker is going to fit in. Really good.

So Barry says Android all the way, but rich is great KTLA channel five with the hashtag I love that, and Laurie says great for Valentine's gift for my sweetheart. Well, if your sweetheart loves loves Apple, you should definitely get them one of these things. I think they would like it. All right, phone line is open. I know there's a slight delay, but three one zero five nine four three

So Consumer Reports.

Did a big study and they found that millions of smart TVs can be controlled by hackers exploiting easy to find security flaws. Well no, duh, they're smart TVs. What do you think is going to happen? So they found that the problems affect Samsung televisions primarily along with models made by TCL and other brands that use the Roku TV smart TV platform, as well as streaming.

Devices like the Roku Ultra. So here's what they found.

That a hacker could do change channels, play offensive content, crank up the volume, and all this could be done over the web.

So what did they figure out?

Well, they basically figured out some sort of open port that's available to someone that's pretty you know, probably tech savvy, but not you and I necessarily, but someone that knows a little bit about coding and back doors and all this stuff, and they figured out a way to kind of change some things on your TV.

So is this a huge deal? I mean, obviously we.

Don't want this stuff to happen. We don't want our TVs to be hacked. We don't want people to be able to see what we're doing. But the reality is the stuff they're talking about change channels, play offensive content, crank up the volume. Yes, that would definitely be scary if you're sitting in your house and someone starts playing a movie on your TV that you did not ask for or changes the volume. And these are the kind of things now, I'll be honest. When I was a kid,

So it's not something that hasn't happened before.

It's just a new way of doing it, and hackers are finding those exploits. So now, if there's cameras on the TV, that would definitely be a problem. But this goes to show a larger problem in general, and that is the smart home. We are putting so many devices in our homes that listen and watch and we don't want people to have access to those. So again, that's why reports like this come out, because we want these

Close those holes. That's what we want to happen. Two one three, you're on with Rich. Two one three, you're on with Rich. Hello.

Hello, Hey, l I couldn't hear you. The question I wanted to ask is if Sonos could be played in I mean that Sonos the home Pod could be played in stereo.

Good question.

So yes, HomePod can be Now do you mean with one home pod or two?

Two?

Okay, yes, So they are coming out with a feature later this year. And I already saw it in preview. So they had two HomePods set up and they were playing in stereo. They do link up with each other and so, and it sounded fantastic. But that feature is coming later this year. They didn't say when it's coming, but it is a promised feature on the HomePod I saw yesterday, so it's definitely available. They're just working out the bugs, I assume. So, yes, you can hook up

So Apple has definitely worked some magic into this. Now. Sonos has had something like that.

That for many years, but it required you kind of holding up your phone to tune the speaker so it can hear around the room. And I tried to do that with mine and that it never worked, so I didn't really give.

It much thought. But yeah, so does that answer your question?

Yeah, sure does.

Thank you very much and shout out to everybody at KTLA.

I love your news.

Thanks so much for calling in. I appreciate it.

Rose says, Are you able to receive incoming calls and talk through the speaker? Great question, Rose, So we tried this. I called my wife through here. So here's how it works. You cannot just say to Siri, can you call this phone number that is not enabled just yet, But what you can do is you can make a phone call through the phone and then transfer it to your speaker. So when you make a call, you know how you have little that little uh sign here that says like.

Bluetooth or car or whatever.

You just press that once and then you'll see your home pod listed. You press that and your call will immediately transfer. And by the way, the call sounded fantastic. I can't get over how good the sound is on this thing. So I understand it's a super premium, expensive product.

But the reality is, if you purchase this product for three hundred and fifty dollars, you're.

Not going to be disappointed. You're not going to get it home and say, ah, I could have gotten an echo for eighty bucks. No, no, no, this is not the same sound quality as an echo. Echo sounds like a tin can compared to this device. And I'm not I'm not saying the echo is bad. It's just totally different. This is a premium speaker product that Apple has put a lot of work into, and the echo sounds great until you get it next to this, and then.

Of course it's a little bit different.

All right, phone line is open three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.

Jose says, how did you really like the Vava dash cam?

So here's the deal, And then we've got another Hiram says, I wanted to buy the dash cam, but I can't find the link for the code to get the discount. So let me tell you about the Vava dashcam.

Let's see here Vava. Let me just bring it up.

So Vava dashcam is basically one of the best dash cams I've ever tested. And here's what I love about it. It is a one hundred and thirty dollars dash cam that let me get you there it is. Oh oh, whoops, I brought up. I brought it up on the wrong page. Hang on, let me bring it up on the right page here. So Vava is a one hundred and thirty dollars dash cam and it's got a really unique design.

Number one.

And let me just tell you, this was the top rated story I have ever done in the history of KTLA. More of you went to the website yesterday to check out this dashcam and to check out this deal than anything else. I cannot believe how I knew it was gonna be popular because this was really cool. I did not realize just how popular it would be. So this dashcam normally sells for one hundred and thirty dollars. It has a swivel mount so you can swivel it. Three

Looks really nice.

I've got a sample video in here, and I actually downloaded I actually.

Downloaded a Let's see if I can find it.

I downloaded a video at night because you were asking, hey, can you send one at night? So let's see if I can find one Fava dashcam night sample.

Let's see if mine comes up.

I uploaded this this morning to YouTube, so hopefully there it is. So oh, someone else upload it. But here's what it looks like. And I think it looks pretty darn good. That's not even it hasn't even clicked into HD yet. There it is seven twenty.

But that's a pretty bright picture.

It's a pretty good looking picture, and you can definitely make out all of the details.

In the picture.

Especially you want to be able to make out license plates, So if you were to pause that and zoom in, you'd definitely be able to see those license plates as well.

But there you go. That's my drive into work, so you can see.

That's going down Vine and let's see stop rich, Okay, I did, and then taking a left there on Sunset Boulevard. So Dahlia says, why does one need a dash cam?

That's a great question. So here's the thing. You don't need a dash cam.

But there's something very satisfying about having a dash cam. You have a confidence on the road that you just don't have normally because you know if something happens in front of you or to your car, that.

This dash cam is going to capture it. And you know if people cut you off, you get to an accident.

It's just nice to have that video record of everything that goes on, plus the audio as well, So you get the audio of what's happening in your car, plus you get your speed and location. You can turn off the speed on, hold on, let's uh, let's close this so you can let me get back to where I was. You can set the so it doesn't show you the speedometer on your car if you want to do that, but it also captures the sound in your car as well, so you know what's going on. Now, the here's the deal.

So wow, you guys already. Dedra says, she already got hers delivered today.

That's amazing. She used the code yesterday, that's awesome. Yeah, Grace says, I love the dash cam. Wish I could have used it when a woman backed into my car. There you go, so you have it there as well. It also keeps a record of all the places that you drive, so I really like that as well. Here's the other thing, so I wanted to make sure that the Vava cam was a good deal, so I actually checked.

So I really love this dash cam. I think it's really cool.

It's got some other features that I haven't even talked about, which include there is a snapshot, so you can actually there's this little button that you put on your somewhere on your dashboard, and it's like a little bluetooth. It looks like a little circle like this. You just press that and next thing you know, it takes a snapshot too.

Now, I will tell you I don't think you should do that because I.

Don't think anyone should be singing with their friends while they drive, because that's very dangerous. So I don't know how James Corden does it, but it seems very every time I watch that show, I'm.

Like, please be careful, please be careful.

Now, I know, on like normal shows like if they're driving in a car. The car is being pulled by a trailer, so they're fine. But I think in carpool karaoke he's actually driving while they sing, which just seems absolutely insane to me.

So let's see Peter says he's ordering it. Now, there you go, all right, So there's the Vava camp. You guys love that story, so man I was.

I was very impressed with a Vava cam with that.

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Let's see, there's some I print all these things I want to talk to you guys about, and let's see.

I thought this was interesting. So Amazon is.

Going to start delivering from Whole Foods, so or I guess they already started today. So if you're an Amazon Prime member, you can get free two hour delivery on orders over thirty five dollars from Whole Foods. And unfortunately, it's only in four neighborhoods, which is Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Virginia Beach. So I don't know how they pick those neighborhoods. But if you live in one of those neighborhoods,

This is free two hour delivery of groceries over thirty five dollars if you put in order with your Prime membership.

So that means you're not paying anything extra for that membership. So, hey, Siri, what do you think of Whole Foods?

I think therefore I am Oh, let's not put to cart before divorce.

I feel like Siri is my like sidekick on this show. I think that Siri is uh is gonna be uh, She's just gonna be here forever because I can just ask her questions. Oh, all these people asking about the discount. Please share the code. The code very easy. It's rich on Tech. Rich on Tech is the code. So if you but here's the thing. I would not just search Amazon because if you get the wrong thing, it's not

All right, So.

There's rich on tech dot TV. Here's the dash cam. And by the way, I put all my stuff right on here. So if you ever, you know, are looking for some thing I mentioned on TV, this is where you go. That's why I always say rich on tech dot TV, because I put everything on here. If it's a small mention of something like a lot of people were asking I mentioned that book I was reading the other day called Crush It.

A lot of you asked, you emailed me, Hey, what was the name of that book? Well, guess what. See what it says looking for a link to something I mentioned, Check here and guess what. There it is. There's the link. Here's the book I bought. So sometimes you have to kind of just look a little bit, but you will find it.

And there's the book Crushing It, which by the way, is fantastic. So okay, so you have that, and then you go back to the homepage and here's the dash cam story. So I click there and about a bing about a boom. Here we go scroll down and the code is right here at the bottom of the page.

So there's the code. So there's the code.

So you can actually click here you've got the Amazon click and then use the code, add it to your shopping cart, and then you can add it at the code at checkout rich on tech which will take a lot of money off one it's normally one thirty and it will come down to ninety six or ninety seven dollars. So there you go, rich on tech dot TV. And the other thing I meant to mention about the dashcan that I like is that it does have a battery inside, so even when your car is off, it's still active.

So again, if someone hits your car and.

Then speeds off, you'll be able to get their license plate or something like that, or if they try to get in your car, you know, they'd have to walk past your car for you.

To see them.

But anyway, that's the that's the deal with that.

So all right, phone.

Lines open three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. You have a tech question, go ahead and call in. You can definitely call in and get right through. Right now, let's see what else we want to talk about here Vava, We've got.

Disney, We've got I g oh Apple watch. I thought this was this was pretty good. Oh, you know what, let me do some while you guys are calling in. I'll do some. I'll do some of the comments here.

Andreas said, I just got an Echo a few days ago. Now what lol, I think you'll be okay with the Echo this. Let this one kind of simmer for a little bit before you go ahead and order that. Philip says, the dash cam is perfect for Uber drivers. It is perfect except for Uber drivers. I guess see, if I was an Uber driver, I'd want the front and the back recorded at the same time. So I think in a future version of the Vava cam, they're gonna do front and back and I would assume three sixty video

So there you go.

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I mean, here's the thing. I you know, I do this for fun. I do this to answer your questions. And that's the reality of it is that if you find out about it and you know about it, it's awesome.

I love it, Thank you so much. But I don't like sit there and advertise.

I barely mentioned this on KTLA ever, but I do do it, and I do like doing it because it is fun.

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That is my personal number. You will get through. So there you go.

All right, this I thought was really cool. Apple Watch can detect early signs of diabetes with eighty.

Five percent accuracy.

So part of an ongoing study involving Apple Watch and Android users, researchers at app developer, Cardiogram and the University of UCSF they basically trained a network called deep Heart to figure out people with and without diabetes at an eighty five percent accuracy just by looking at their stats

And I thought that that's.

Pretty amazing because this is kind of the holy grail of medicine, is that because we're wearing these smart devices that are always monitoring us, that we can kind of tell things in advance of feeling really sick. So let's see, they presented samples with and without diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea,

Going on with them. I think that's amazing.

Now, if you've heard the rumor from Apple, they are trying to develop a non invasive glucose sensor for the Apple Watch, which would be unbelievable because now I don't I mean, I don't know anyone personally with diabetes, but I know a lot of people out there have it, and I know of the disease, and I understand that you're testing yourself all the time. I mean I know someone actually, I do know someone that has it, and he actually wears a sensor that is kind of embedded

So that's what Apple's working on. That's not here just yet.

But again they say the holy grail of modern medical science would be a system that allows diabetics to continuously monitor their sugar levels without performing blood draws, and that would be unbelievable. So and I do think Apple will accomplish that.

I really do.

I think Apple is really trying to put a lot behind the Apple Watch. All Right, someone was brave at to call in seven one four You're on with Rich? Hello, Hey, who am I speaking with?

Okay, just second here, I've got to turn on this speak.

Oh yeah, it's a little it's a little complicated because it's delayed as well. So it's kind of like the old timey radio, you know, and you call and you'd hear the person in the background. So let me know when you're ready, seven to one four.

Okay, Yeah, I've got my uh, I'm using my iPhone and i've got it on speaker phone, but I can't hear you on the phone.

That's interesting. Hmm, I wonder why.

I don't know.

Oh, you have to wait to hear me through the through the Facebook Live, which is super delayed, right.

I think so?

Yes, yeah, interesting, all right, well we'll try to power through it. What's your question?

Okay, now I can hear you.

Oh, here we go.

I think I see the home pod next year. It's a little bit bigger than I expected. I got a notice that it's on the UPS truck for tomorrow for delivery. How do you like it so far?

I love it.

I mean, I think it's it's probably one of the best sounding speakers that I've listened to. So I think I think you're gonna be very happy with the audio quality. Are you a Are you an Apple Music subscriber already or are you planning on signing up? Yes?

Yes I am.

Okay, So, I mean, if you're an Apple Music subscriber, I mean you could just literally talk to it, say you know, you can call out a playlist, you can call it a genre, a specific song. You can just say play me some music and it will play. And the audio quality is unbelievable, gets super loud. It's small, but Apple has done so many great things with tuning this and making it work in any room. So it's

I was.

I was very impressed with the It sounded better than Sono's, which to me has always been the gold standard.

So what feature are you looking forward to me?

I am the owned a a speaker, you know, a device where you can talk to it. Yeah, I've got iPad, iPhones and all that stuff, but I have yet to uh to get one of these. And it looks pretty good. I like, I ordered the white one. I like things white, not black.

So well, now you said you said it looks bigger than you think. I mean it's it might be because it's closer to the camera if I hold it back. I mean that's about how big it is. So it's not it's it is heavy, though, I will tell you it's got some weight on it.

I don't know what the what the weight is, but it is a heavy speaker.

And it's got this great mesh design that it's just it feels great.

Not that you really want to push.

It in because it is a mesh. It could be damaged that way, I think, But it's just it's very minimalistic looking. It will fit into your you know, your house. That kind of blends into the background. But it's also kind of a statement because it is so well designed. And you do have the touch controls on the top too, so if you want to start playing something, you can just tap I believe, let's see, Yeah, you can just tap once, and you also have the volume up and down.

Can you also plug in a radio or something to the speaker in the back or.

No, you can't plug anything into the back. In fact, I was actually surprised that the cable does not plug in, even like the power cable does not come out. It's just built in there, which is kind of odd for a speaker these days. Yeah, but yeah, so you can't plug anything into the back. There is no external input whatsoever. The only way you can get an external audio source into it is by using airplay off your iPhone now

Yeah, now, is this is there firmware that can be upgraded over the air or is it?

Yeah? So yeah, no, no, it's all it's all software.

So in fact, we had an earlier caller ask if you can pair them up with stereo, and that's one of the features that's coming later on, so you will be able to pair it up with stereo.

And you'll be able to do that too.

So I mean, yeah, this is definitely one of those things where it's kind of iPhone, you know, you get new features every once in a while and you're just like pleasantly surprised, like, oh, it couldn't do this yesterday, but now it can do this, And that's exactly what they're going to do with home Pod as well. So I'm just trying to find when you get something out, Yeah, when when you held it.

Back, I can see the side and you know, the real size of it there to where it's more of a manageable size, right, and your your camera makes it look like a monster.

Yeah, no, no, no, we just had it. We just had it up close because it's got to be on the desk here. But no, no, it's yeah, it's not that. You know, it does look like a monster up there. You're right now, this is if I hold it back here, it's definitely it's not a monster.

It's it's a good size speaker. It looks really nice. So here's the two features that are coming later this year.

Stereo pair, so if you put two home pods in the same room, they automatically balance each other to become stereo. And then let's see Airplay two, which is basically going to allow you to play the same music in various rooms.

If you get a bunch of these in.

Different rooms, you can have multi room audio, which right now, that's what Sono's kind of pioneered. You can accomplish that now with the Echo and also with the Google devices. But now you'll be able to do it with this later on in the year with a software update.

Oh that's good. Yeah. Well I'm gonna have to buy a lot of ticket to get more than one.

Yeah, I was gonna say that that's where this gets expensive.

Yeah yeah.

I'm sort of giving myself this my birthday in May. First. We're going to use it before then, but this is my birthday present and myself, so it's you know, it's pretty expensive.

Yeah, it is.

It is a premium purchase, but I think you'll be happy. Yeah.

Yeah.

I like Apple products, so that's good. I watch YouTube all the time for the latest Apple stuff and looking at the new iPads coming this year and everything, and you know, they look pretty good. Oh, they looked pretty nice.

I deal with a lot of these companies, Apple, Amazon, Google, and I will say that Apple definitely has.

They have it together, you know what I mean.

Not that the other companies don't, but Apple is very, very on top of things, and they've had their stumbles in recent years, but they they overall, when you get a product from.

Them, you know that it's been vetted. You know that for the most part, they have done their homework on things.

They've thought of a lot of stuff, and they have a theory behind why they do things the way they do it, so I think HomePod is no different.

So all right, okay, well thanks for your time that I appreciate it.

Hey, thanks for calling in. I appreciate it. And have a happy birthday and enjoy the new home pod. All right, there you go. What are the dimensions?

Since you don't put your hand by it, you know, I don't let me see if I have the dimensions.

I have them right here. Let's see here technical specs.

So it is six point eight inches high, five point six inches wide, and it weighs five point five pounds, and it comes in white and space gray. And again you've got touch and hold for serious. You can just touch and hold here.

What's the weather like in Cabo?

It's currently cloudy and seventy eight degrees in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Spect mostly cloudy sky starting in the afternoon. Temperatures are heading down from eighty degrees this afternoon to seventy three tonight.

Wow, she's awfully specific with the weather. You get a lot of stuff there.

What else here? Audio formats Wi Fi? So yeah, setup is pretty easy as well.

All right, if you want to call in three one zero five nine four three zero zero three three one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Mama's Gorhero says, how much rich? Three hundred and fifty dollars for the HomePod. So three hundred and fifty big ones for the HomePod.

So all right, let's see.

Do I have anything else I want to talk to you guys about before I go here? Oh wow, it's already two o'clock. Well we're already going over time. All right, one more thing. I'll just talk about Twitter real quick before we go. So, you know, Twitter posted its first profit this week, which is pretty impressive because everyone said that, you know, like Twitter is not one of those things. It's like, you don't think of Twitter as like a big business. It has changed the way we communicate. But

You know, they expanded it. They've doubled how many characters you can use. Has actually worked.

So Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says, people have the room and we're seeing less abandonment of tweets, but we're seeing a lot more engagement as well, more retweets and more mentions, and.

So that's a good thing.

So I guess they're saying that because you can talk longer in these tweets, people are actually taking the time to craft tweets.

And I'm guilty of that myself.

I would start a tweet and I can't fit it, or I can't you know, I got to sit there and like get rid of some words to make it all fit, and I'm just like, you know what, nevermind, and I'll just close out the app. So the two hundred and eighty characters has definitely given me some breathing room on there, and I feel like a lot of other people so that was a good thing. Hasn't changed

So all right, that's going to do it for today's show. Thanks so much for joining me, Thanks so much for two tuning in.

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