After six years in office, President Obama has got his own personal Twitter account:

Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account. — President Obama (@POTUS44) May 18, 2015

Previously, the President had sporadically contributed tweets to the Whitehouse and Barack Obama accounts, signing tweets with his initials. From now on, all tweets directly from the President will come from the new account.

Both @Whitehouse and Twitter’s Government account confirmed the verified account is real.

Welcome to Twitter @POTUS, the official @WhiteHouse account for Tweets from the President of the United States. https://t.co/eIWcwljSZY — Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) May 18, 2015

BREAKING: President Obama just launched @POTUS with a tweet from the Oval Office. It's really him! #WelcomeToTwitter https://t.co/oMsgvV55i1 — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) May 18, 2015

Obviously, the @POTUS account will pass to the next holder of the office after the 2016 election, with tweets from President Obama being archived just like any other government records.

Update: And here’s the President actually composing his first tweet from the new account:

Watch President Obama send his first tweet from @POTUS. #FollowTheTweetshttps://t.co/N8JxY8kQIE — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) May 18, 2015

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