~ Auto Buzz ~: President Obama joins Twitter for real

Monday, 18 May 2015

President Obama joins Twitter for real

After six years in office, President Obama has got his own personal Twitter account:

Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.

— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015

Previously, the President had sporadically contributed tweets to the Whitehouse and Barack Obama accounts, signing tweets with his initials. From now on, all tweets directly from the President will come from the new account.

Both @Whitehouse and Twitter’s Government account confirmed the verified account is real.

Welcome to Twitter @POTUS, the official @WhiteHouse account for Tweets from the President of the United States. https://t.co/eIWcwljSZY

— Twitter Government (@gov) May 18, 2015

BREAKING: President Obama just launched @POTUS with a tweet from the Oval Office. It's really him! #WelcomeToTwitter https://t.co/oMsgvV55i1

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 18, 2015

Obviously, the @POTUS account will pass to the next holder of the office after the 2016 election, with tweets from President Obama being archived just like any other government records.