Potus tweets, world listens: Barack Obama finally gets his own Twitter account

Barack Obama is used to enduring long battles but even by his standards, a six-year wait to get a Twitter account must have been something of a slog. 

 

Still, he's made his point, gaining 1.77m followers in less than 24 hours, easily beating poor old David Cameron, who languishes down the table with * only * 1.07m followers, despite being on the social media platform since 2010. 

 

The US President made his inaugural tweet from the @Potus account yesterday afternoon

 

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/600324682190053376

 

And already he's being pestered by some guy called Bill Clinton

 

https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/600389785769881600

 

Luckily Obama knows how to handle these kinds of enquiries. Just pass them onto his wife… 

 

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/600407380279566336