President Obama Finally Tweets — For Haiti — In Third Person
His first tweet wasn’t from the @barackobama account, but rather it was from the @redcross account. Even stranger was the actual tweet: “President Obama and the First Lady are here visiting our disaster operation center right now.” Yes, he tweeted in third person. The next tweet on the Red Cross account confirmed that it was the President who sent that tweet: “President Obama pushed the button on the last tweet. It was his first ever tweet!”
Obviously, this tweet was a way of showing his support for what the Red Cross is doing to help people in Haiti following the devastating earthquakes there last week. Though it might have been better for him to tweet from his account with over 2 million followers about the relief rather than the Red Cross’ which has a “mere” 50,000 followers.
Mobile donations to the Red Cross alone have already surpassed $10 million, with overall mobile donations now past $20 million.