after she had introduced him at a 2012 election campaign event in
Davenport, Iowa. The campaign tweeted a similar photograph from the campaign photographer on election night, and many people thought it was taken on election day. Barack Obama's
Twitter account (
@BarackObama) is the official account on social networking site Twitter for former
President of the United States Barack Obama. Obama also used the White House's Twitter account (
@WhiteHouse) and the
@POTUS account, which was created in May 2015. ,
@BarackObama is the most-followed politician and second most-followed person on Twitter with over 131 million followers. Obama has used Twitter to promote legislation and support for his policies, During Obama's
2012 presidential campaign, the rapidly-increasing audience on Twitter gave the platform a larger role in communication efforts than in the 2008 campaign.
Statistics on Twitter usage The
@BarackObama account is among the top ten worldwide in both followers and followed accounts. At one point, the account held the record for having the most people following it. On August 13, 2019, at 14:39
PDT, Obama's account overtook Katy Perry to become the most-followed person on Twitter with over 107 million followers. During his 2008 campaign, the account was intermittently the world's most followed. In May 2010, Obama's Twitter account was the fourth most followed account, with about 4 million followers. By May 16, 2011, @BarackObama was followed by 7.4 million people, including twenty-eight world leaders. His account became the third to reach 10 million followers on Twitter in September of 2011.
Account usage history ged questions @BarackObama was launched on March 5, 2007, at 16:08:25. It is his official account, though he also tweeted through @WhiteHouse, the official account of the current presidential administration, while @BarackObama was mainly used by his campaign staff. Following the 2008 election, the
Democratic National Committee was believed to have taken over Obama's official Twitter account; in a November 2009 speech, Obama stated "I have never used Twitter," although his account had over 2.6 million followers at the time. In 2011, the @BarackObama account was stated to be "run by #Obama2012 campaign staff. Tweets from the President are signed -bo." The first Tweet using Obama's initials was posted for Father's Day in 2011 with the message, "Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job..." 's while seated During his presidency, Obama held public forums in which he fielded questions posted on Twitter. On July 6, 2011, he participated in what was billed as "Twitter Presents Townhall @ the White House". The event was held in the
East Room of the White House and was streamed online. Only written questions on the site about the economy and jobs were accepted for oral response by Obama. His average responses were over 2000 characters long.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Boehner participated by tweeting "Where are the jobs?" to the hashtag #AskObama, and received a response from President Obama. The event was moderated by Twitter executive
Jack Dorsey. Dorsey said afterwards that Twitter received over 110,000 #AskObama-hashtagged tweets. On May 24, 2012, Obama again responded to questions on Twitter about his administration's "Congress to-do list". On July 29, 2011, during the
United States debt-ceiling crisis, @BarackObama lost over 40,000 followers when the president urged Americans "to call, email and tweet Congressional leaders to 'keep the pressure on' lawmakers in hopes of reaching a bipartisan deal to raise the
nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit ahead of an August 2 deadline." During the day, he sent about 100 tweets that included the Twitter accounts of Congressional
Republicans. Later in 2011, Obama used Twitter again to try to encourage the people to voice their opinion on legislation when he was attempting to pass the
American Jobs Act. during the July 6, 2011 Twitter town hall meeting|alt=Barack Obama in a blue suit typing on computer at a podium while a white man in a light grey suit looks on
Hacking On January 5, 2009, @BarackObama was among several celebrity accounts that were hacked and
domain hijacked. The hacker
phished the password of a Twitter administrator's account, gaining access to other accounts to which he then changed the passwords, and subsequently offered access to accounts upon request at Digital Gangster. The case eventually led to a non-financial settlement with the
Federal Trade Commission by Twitter. On July 4, 2011, Obama was the subject of a
death hoax on Twitter when
Fox News' Politics Twitter account (@foxnewspolitics) was hacked. Initially, the hackers started their hoax messages with @BarackObama, thus only making the message appear in the Twitter timelines of those following Fox News and the Presidential account. Eventually, the hackers switched to hashtag references, increasing the visibility of their activities. Fox News acknowledged the breach and apologized. ==Facebook==