President Obama gets his own Twitter account Monday May 18,2015

US President Barack Obama has just launched his own Twitter feed, the White House has confirmed.

 

His Twitter handle is @POTUS (President Of The United States) and within few hours he had attracted over a million followers.
"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account" is his first tweet

Within 24 minutes the US President had attracted 100,000 followers to his new Twitter account 



The president's official feed, run by Organizing for Action staff, has 59.3m followers.
The account @BarackObama was launched in 2007, and the president initials tweets he writes himself with the letters BO