Who is the Original Twitter's POTUS?

With the new Twitter celebrity, enrapturing this social media platform, the Obama Twitter handle has yet another claimant.

On Monday, May 18, the US President, Barack Obama, sent in his first tweet using the account @POTUS. This 140 characters tweet marks the entry of another influential person around the world, into the popular social media platform.

It took six years before President Obama opened an account as President of the United States. His introductory post reads @POTUS; ‘Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account. —President Obama May 18, 2015’.

First Lady Michelle Obama herself, commented to the tweet, ‘It's about time, @POTUS!–mo —The First Lady (@FLOTUS) May 18, 2015’.

A White House official has stated that the @POTUS account will be passed on to the next president in 2017. Lately, Twitter has become an effective medium for government leaders to quickly disseminate information.

Amidst this entire clangor, someone else too achieves Twitter stardom with the @POTUS handle. It is a man called Steve D'Alimonte, who first claimed the Twitter handle @POTUS in 2008, when he was just a fan testing out on a new social media platform.

D’Alimonte, a Canadian citizen who currently lives in Toronto stated, “I had the handle until 2011 when I moved to the US. Because I was looking for jobs at the time, I thought it was probably time to choose a handle that better reflected me and not the President of the United States, which I definitely am not”.

Though D'Almonte changed his handle in 2011, he decided not to entirely let go of the @POTUS handle, as he thought, that down the road someone might be interested in claiming it.

This May, D'Alimonte has been proved correct, with POTUS having the super influential claimant, President Obama.

But all D'Almonte got in return is a Twitter link to the ‘Inactive Account Policy’!