President Obama to Write His Own Tweets

The president's campaign team announced this past week that Barack Obama would start to personally tweet from his account.

The president's first tweet appeared Friday: "a new @BarackObama. From now on, #Obama2012 staff will manage this account; tweets from the President will be signed "-BO."

The campaign said on its website that the changes "will give us new opportunities to make the most of these channels, using them not only to report what the president is doing every day but to connect to the millions of supporters who will be driving this campaign."

President Obama's Twitter account has more than 8 million followers, making his account the third most followed on the social networking site - just behind Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.

With the campaign season gearing up, this seems like a smart move on the president's part. He will be able to at least appear to give his constituents and followers a level of accessibility not previously seen.

Readers, are you more inclined to follow the president on Twitter now that he'll write his own tweets?

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