{"id":4464,"date":"2015-05-19T23:41:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2015-05-19T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T22:41:17","slug":"obama-owns-a-personal-twitter-account-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/obama-owns-a-personal-twitter-account-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama owns a personal Twitter account, finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Obama\"<\/a>\u201cDad, husband, and 44th President of the United States.\u201d With this message, US president Barack Obama has joined Twitter with his personal account.
\nAccording to the New York Times, his first post from @POTUS twitter handle on Monday included a greeting\u2014\u201cHello, Twitter! It\u2019s Barack. Really!\u201d
\n\u201cSix years in, they\u2019re finally giving me my own account,\u201d he posted.
\nWithin no time, more than one million people had signed up to follow Obama\u2019s presence on the micro-blogging site.
\nAccording to his aides, the phone belonged to the Executive Office of the President and was not regularly carried by Obama.
\nIt is unlikely that he will post messages from his heavily-secured BlackBerry.
\nIt is unclear what device Obama will finally use to post on his personal account.
\nAccording to a White House blog post, the new Twitter account would feature \u201ctweets coming exclusively from\u201d the president.
\nHe was also not following Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate who served as his secretary of state.
\nClinton\u2019s account was not following @POTUS either as of now, the NYT report added.
\nAlready, there is one @BarackObama Twitter handle which has nearly 60 million followers.
\nIt is operated by Obama\u2019s former campaign operation and is rarely used by the president.
\nThere is also the @WhiteHouse handle which communicates official missives to its 6.1 million followers.<\/p>\n

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