By ‘Dayo Showemimo
The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama finally joined Twitter yesterday, Monday, May 18, 2015.
Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.
— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015
And in a few hours with just 3 tweets, he’s got over 1.6 million followers. Talk about power, his first tweet from the already verified account announcing his arrival on Twitter has been re-tweeted over 230,000 times.
Before now, there’s the @barackobama Twitter handle that’s run by Organizing for Action staff with tweets signed by the President.
