a Million followers American President scored just 5 hours.

President of the United States got into the Guinness Book of records thanks to his Twitter account. He got a million followers in record time.

New Twitter account @POTUS Barack Obama appeared just a couple of days ago - on may 18, but for to set the world record it took him only 5 hours. It is during this time the President of the United States scored its first million subscribers. Currently, their number exceeded 2 million. While Obama (or his assistant) has written a total of 3 tweet. The first one was retinut more than 270,000 times.

by the Way, @POTUS is not the first account of the American President on Twitter. For quite some time functioning account @'s presidency, but the records there are representatives of non-profit organization Organizing for Action and only occasionally by the politician.

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

— President Obama (@POTUS) May 18, 2015

the Previous record for the set of followers belonged to the "Iron man" Robert Downey Jr. The first million subscribers, he collected 23 hours and 22 minutes.

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