(MENAFN- The Peninsula) President Barack Obama sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter yesterday, quickly amassing tens of thousands of followers in the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media.
"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," Obama tweeted from his verified @POTUS account, which had more than 217,000 followers in its first 45 minutes.
His Twitter page featured an image of Obama, his family and civil rights leaders crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march earlier this year.
It's not the first time Obama has tweeted. He has occasionally signed tweets from the @WhiteHouse account with his initials, "-bo" and also has used @BarackObama, which is an account run by Organising for Action, Obama's former campaign team.
When his time in office is done, @POTUS will be passed on to future presidents.
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