Updated on December 10, 2021
The White House announced today that it now has an official Twitter account for the President of the United States, @POTUS. Said account will belong to whoever occupies the role of commander-in-chief.
President Obama has had a Twitter account already, but an unofficial one tied to related parties. Obama fired off the first tweet earlier today:
Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.
— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015
Former president Bill Clinton posted off his own tweet in response:
Good question, @billclinton. The handle comes with the house. Know anyone interested in @FLOTUS?
— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015
For the politically unaware (and/or non-Americans), the US holds presidential elections next year, and Hillary Clinton’s the most favored Democrat candidate so far… which’d make Bill Clinton the very first “First Gentleman,” I suppose. On the Republican side, there’s no clear front-runner, though Jeb Bush, former president George W. Bush’s brother, has expressed interest in running.
