WASHINGTON: “Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack. Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.”

With that inaugural Tweet sent from a smart phone in the Oval Office before jumping on Marine One Monday, the President of the United States Barack Obama—or @POTUS—cast off security and bureaucratic chains in place since he was elected.

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