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“Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.”
That was President Obama’s first tweet, sent on May 18 of this year, from the new Obama Twitter account. Five hours after sending it, he’d gotten more than a million followers, breaking the record set by “Avengers” actor Robert Downey, Jr. when he joined Twitter in 2014.
As of this writing, the President has 3.05 million followers. That’s not at the level of say, Taylor Swift, but there’s something about Obama’s Twitter presence that’s both similar to and one a different level from the standard celebrity Tweet.