Gaining Half a Million Followers within 9 Hours ... Biden Launches his Presidential Account on "Twitter"

Biden's presidential Twitter account.

US President-elect Joe Biden revealed his new official account on Twitter and sent him, Thursday, the first tweet, and until writing the news had garnered about half a million followers.

Biden said in his tweet, "Comrades, this will be my Twitter account for my official duties as president. At 12:01 pm on January 20, it will be POTUS. Until then, I'll use @joebiden."

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