Obama's final tweets as president are a message of strength and hope
With the minutes of his presidency dwindling, 44th President of the United States Barack Obama sent what are likely his final tweets from the @POTUS twitter account on Friday morning, leaving the White House as he entered it: with a message of inspiration and hope.
In the midst of the tweets, he also revealed the website for his Obama Foundation, which will be the focal point of his activities now that he's leaving the White House.
Obama, joined by Greatest Human Being Ever Michelle Obama, posted a quick video to the Obama Foundation's YouTube page to connect with people for ideas of what to work on next.
Later, the White House also sent what is it's likely final tweet under the Obama administration.
So with these final tweets, Obama's social media presence as president comes to a close and the accounts associated with the Oval Office transfer to Donald Trump. But you'll be able to go back and read Obama's presidential tweets.
Once Trump has been sworn in, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will transfer all of Obama's tweets at @POTUS over to the account @POTUS44. The same will go for Joe Biden's @VP tweets (@VP44) and Michelle Obama's @FLOTUS tweets (@FLOTUS44).
In fact, the NARA is busy making sure all of the digital and social media content created by the Obama White House across multiple platforms, from Medium to YouTube, will likewise be stored on new archival accounts so that they'll still live online and be viewed by the public.
As Obama's presidential Twitter time comes to an end, we look forward to the incendiary tweets to come from his successor and mourn the dad jokes we will no longer enjoy.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
