![]() The White House says the president “ launched” the account from the Oval Office: Of course, the president has long used the official handle, run by his political group Organizing for Action (followers: 59.3 million), with the sign-off “-bo.” But what was new, we were told, is that this account will be pure Barack Obama-a personal account, all his own. Twitter did not respond to emailed questions about the account.Īnd the “Roy” from D’Alimonte’s first tweet? That’s his “early adopter” friend Roy Abraham (known online as “ Roy Marvelous“), a New Zealander and avid social media guru currently living in Vancouver, who recommended that D’Alimonte get on Twitter early.Ī social-media frenzy greeted President Barack Obama’s announcement on Monday that he had “finally” joined Twitter with a verified Twitter account. D’Alimonte sent Mother Jones several emails confirming the identity of his Twitter account from 20. And then? “I didn’t think about it again until yesterday,” he said. That was until 2011, when D’Alimonte realized he should use his real name on Twitter so potential employers could find him, so he switched handle to D’Alimonte says that’s when he tried to to claim back his account, which he had let lapse, but he wasn’t allowed to get it back. He joined Twitter at a time when “everything was available”, he said, but he ended up using it “more as a voyeur” than as an active user. In 2008, “I was super into the West Wing,” D’Alimonte said via phone from Canada. UPDATE: Tuesday May 19, 2015, 4pm EST: Mother Jones can reveal that the former owner of is Steve D’Alimonte, 33, a freelance multimedia producer living in Toronto. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
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