#iargang - US President Barack Obama has just launched his own Twitter feed

US President Barack Obama has just launched his own Twitter feed, the White House has confirmed. His Twitter handle is @POTUS (President Of The United States) and within few hours he has attracted over a million followers.
In his first tweet he says; "Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account" . The president's official feed, run by Organizing for Action staff, has 59.3m followers. The account @BarackObama was launched in 2007, and the president initial tweets he writes himself with the letters BO.
The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. President Obama is currently following 65 people, including Bill Clinton, George Bush and @FLOTUS, the First Lady's account - but not Hillary Clinton or UK Prime Minister David Cameron.