Julia Fair

USA TODAY

Welcome to the Twitterverse, Mr. Comey.

James Comey, who abruptly fired as FBI director in May, used to lie low on social media under the alias Reinhold Niebuhr with the handle @FormerBu. On Monday morning, that handle switched to @Comey accompanying his legal name instead of the American theologian’s.

"Here's my new handle," Comey tweeted. "Glad to be part of the Twitterverse. Grateful to Reinhold for the cover these last few years."

More:Enjoy the photos on James Comey's no-longer-secret Twitter account under the name Reinhold Niebuhr

In March, Comey let slip that he had an account during the Intelligence and National Security Alliance leadership dinner. The online publication Gizmodo published the first story identifying a Twitter user going by the name Reinhold Niebuhr was the then-FBI director.

Last month, the account ownership rumors were curiously confirmed when Comey posted a photo of himself on an empty Iowa road under the Reinhold name-disguise.

A same-day tweet from Comey’s friend and Brookings Institution fellow Benjamin Wittes also said the account was managed by Comey.