President Barack Obama has been addressing us via tweet for six years, but Monday the POTUS finally gets @POTUS, his own personal Twitter account.
In its first moments of its existence, @POTUS has been climbing in follower counts, adding hundreds per second. At time of writing, more than 75 thousand people have signed up to get the presidents 140-character messages.
A press release from the White House explained that “[t]he @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him.”
Vice President Joe Biden welcomed his boss with a tweet of his own:
Vice President Biden
Hey @POTUS – Welcome to Twitter. See you around the neighborhood. –vp
To date, the president’s tweets have typically been dictated and sent out through the official @BarackObama and @WhiteHouse accounts, marked with a sign-off of “-bo”. The @POTUS handle will, for the first time, give the commander-in-chief an account to feature only his comments, presumably from his hands to the Web.
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