Obama Gets His Own Account, Joins Twitter Age

For years, White House officials have used Twitter to communicate White House policy and occasional personal observations.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is embracing short-form communication. Twitter has a new @POTUS account.

For years, White House officials have used Twitter to communicate White House policy and occasional personal observations.

But Obama himself stayed out of the social media fray. No longer.

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

— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015