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Post by Admin on May 18, 2015 20:48:10 GMT
Say goodbye to those White House tweets signed – “BO.” From now on, whenever President Obama personally tweets, it will be from his newly launched @potus account. Only the President, himself, will tweet from this account, the White House advises, making all the tweets from @potus directly attributed to the President.
Obama is “committed to making his Administration the most open and participatory in history,” giving Americans a new way to engage on the issues that are most important to them, the White House said in a statement. Not surprisingly, only being active on Twitter for a very short time, Obama’s account has already been verified by Twitter.
The White House, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Michelle Obama, have all joined in, welcoming Obama to Twitter:
Despite his rapid popularity on Twitter -- gaining more than 200,000 followers in an hour -- the President has some way to go before catching up with heartthrobs Justin Bieber or Katy Perry – the two most followed people on Twitter.
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Post by Admin on Jun 2, 2015 13:47:39 GMT
Brucee Jenner effectively completed his gender transformation today—at least in the public sense—when the former Olympian appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair with the headline, "Call me Caitlyn." Under her new identity, Caitlyn Jenner then got her own Twitter handle, @caitlyn_Jenner, where she picked up 144,000 followers in the first 40 minutes, nearly matching the 180,000 followers President Barack Obama gained in his first 40 minutes on the site two weeks ago when he launched @potus.  By late afternoon, Jenner broke Obama's reported world record in terms of fastest-person ever to gain 1 million Twitter followers. What took the Commander In Chief five hours to achieve only took Jenner a few minutes more than four hours after she published her first tweet at 12:17 p.m. As can be seen above, the retweets and favorites also exploded, and Jenner within minutes became the top national trending topic on Twitter. The same result occurred on Facebook. Meanwhile, several Twitter users tweeted at Wheaties, telling the General Mills cereal brand to put Caitlyn Jenner on its box cover just as it did with Bruce about four decades ago. (Wheaties hasn't tweeted about the Jenner development so far.) |
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