President Obama may be taking his first official steps at a more personal approach with his followers and the American people with a new Twitter account.

The new account, @POTUS, is the third which gives the President access to the people, with the White House ensuring that this account will be an entirely new way for him to engage directly with the American People, with all tweets coming exclusively from him.

According to a statement on the official White House website, the move is another part of President Obama's commitment to making his Administration, now in its sixth year, the "most open and participatory in history," with the account giving Americans a "new venue to engage on the issues that matter most to them."

In his first official Tweet from the account, Obama joked about how it took way too long for the account to come into existence.

"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," he wrote.

In an effort to potentially further prove that Obama himself was the one tweeting on the account, the official White House account shared a video of him putting his message out there, with the President pointing at the camera afterwards and telling everyone to #FollowtheTweets.

The account is a departure from his other official and verified account @BarackObama, which he and his staffers used during his campaign (with tweets from the president himself signed at the end with BO). Though the account used to be run by staffers, it was revealed back in 2013 that the account had since been handed over to a Third Party group, Organizing for Action.

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