"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," said President Obama today in his inaugural tweet.
He followed up with a tweet from Camden, NJ, where he visited to highlight community policing policies.
The president has amassed 930K "followers," and follows 65 Twitter accounts. The bulk of those followed include members of his Cabinet and Administration.
The president follows former Presidents George Bush I and Bill Clinton. George W. Bush has not taken the Twitter plunge.
VP Joe Biden, who has been tweeting since June 2011, greeted his boss with the following: "Hey @POTUS – Welcome to Twitter. See you around the neighborhood. –vp."
Biden also posted an image of himself sitting outdoors and guffawing with the President. True to character, Uncle Joe is doing most of the guffawing. The VP has sent 2,878 tweets since signing up in June 2011. He has 508K followers.
Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential contender got the cold shoulder from Obama. Since joining in June 2013, she's tweeted 391 times.
Elizabeth Warren, Hillary's most formidable Democratic opponent, doesn't make Obama's Twitter's cut. The Massachusetts Senator has 205K fans since joining Twitter in June 2012.
Sports-loving Barry follows Chicago's home town White Sox, Blackhawks, Bears and Bulls. The loyal White Sox fan stiffs his team's baseball rival Cubs. That's a sign of a true White Sox fan.
Surprisingly, the President does not follow any media outlets, which says a lot of his opinion of the Fourth Estate.
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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