For a president who built his campaigns on connecting with young people, President Barack Obama stayed away from actually tweeting himself... until now. Perhaps in an effort to get ready for his post-Oval Office life, Obama has finally joined tweeted himself.
This morning, Obama started the @POTUS account, which has already been verified. Thankfully, Selina Meyer wasn’t using that already.
“Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account,” Obama wrote.
To prove that it really is Obama, the official White House account retweeted him. He already has 78,300 followers.
Vice President Joe Biden also has his own Twitter page, which he only started using again last year. The two can now have conversations over Twitter once they leave the White House.
Obama will also be able to more closely track all the mean tweets you sent to him.
It’s surprising that it took Obama so long to get his own page, but the White House staff must have figured that since he has less than two years left in office there could be no harm in it. Obama did already send a history tweet in November 2012, when the image of him hugging First Lady Michelle Obama went viral after the last presidential election. The photo is now up to nearly 750,000 retweets.
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