President Obama Gains 1 Million Followers On Twitter In 5 Hours

It was just yesterday that the President of the United States Barack Obama finally set up a Twitter account in his own name in which his first tweet read, “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.” At this time of posting, that particular tweet has been retweeted over 260,000 times which is pretty impressive.

However what makes it even more impressive is the fact that his Twitter account managed to nab over a million followers in just five hours since it had gone live, breaking a record in the first place. The previous record holder was none other than actor Robert Downey Jr. in which he managed to reach 1 million followers in 23 hours and 22 minutes

This has since been verified by the Guinness World Record on their website. According to Alex Wall, the White House Deputy Director of Online Engagement for the Office of Digital Strategy, “The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him.”

While the Twitter account only has a handful of tweets, it seems that the President has wasted no time in engaging in some light banter with one of the former Presidents of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Tyler Lee
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