Almost 60 percent of Americans think it's time for Trump to quit Twitter

Donald Trump's off-the-cuff comments on Twitter are nothing new, but the majority of the American public has apparently had enough of his ranting and raving on social media. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, 59 percent of voters said it was time for Trump to shut down his Twitter account, Bloomberg Politics reports.

"You've got the job. Now be a leader, not a tweeter," the poll's assistant director, Tim Malloy, summarized.

Donald Trump will inherit the official presidential Twitter account @POTUS when he is inaugurated on Jan. 20. The presidential account has many thousand fewer followers than Trump's personal account.

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Trump has vowed to be "very restrained" with his Twitter account in office, but the president-elect caused chaos Tuesday when he tweeted that he was canceling a meeting with The New York Times — a cancelation the Times hadn't even heard about until they read his tweet. Hours later, after everything had been smoothed out, Trump followed up to say his meeting was "back on" and that he was "look[ing] forward to it!"