{"id":41157,"date":"2015-05-19T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41157"},"modified":"2015-05-19T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:47:35","slug":"obama-tweets-and-a-million-follow-its-barack-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41157","title":{"rendered":"Obama tweets, and a million follow: ‘It’s Barack. Really!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obama tweets, and a million follow: ‘It’s Barack. Really!’<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a>
\n2015-05-18<\/p>\n

Roberta Rampton<\/strong><\/a>, White House Correspondent<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama<\/a> sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter<\/a> on Monday, quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, the latest of many White House<\/a> efforts to amplify his message with social media.<\/p>\n

“Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account<\/a>,” Obama tweeted from his verified @POTUS<\/a> account.<\/p>\n

A Twitter spokesman could not immediately confirm whether Obama had set a record. According to Guinness World Records<\/a>, the fastest pace to a million followers was set by actor Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> in 23 hours and 22 minutes in April 2014.<\/p>\n

Obama and his advisers pioneered the use of social media like Twitter and Facebook<\/a> in the 2008 presidential campaign and have embraced their use in the White House as well.<\/p>\n

As media attention has increasing shifted toward the 2016 presidential campaign, the White House has boosted its use of social media to break and shape news…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama tweets, and a million follow: ‘It’s Barack. Really!’ Reuters 2015-05-18 Roberta Rampton, White House Correspondent President Barack Obama sent his first tweet from his very own account on Twitter on Monday, quickly amassing a million followers in five hours, the latest of many White House efforts to amplify his message with social media. “Hello, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[17837,20100,20101],"class_list":["post-41157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-reuters","tag-roberta-rampton","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}