This is President Trump's first tweet as @POTUS

Drum roll, please.
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Colin Daileda
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Drum roll, please.

We've all been waiting for it, for one reason or another. Maybe you're excited, or perhaps you're nervous. You're eager to have @POTUS tweeting at you on a whim, or you're alarmed. Either way you probably wanted to know what Donald Trump would say, the man who has made a nation pay attention to Twitter.

Before Friday, Trump was still, in some sense, just a guy. A loud guy who holds very popular rallies, but still just a guy. Now, though, he's the president of the most powerful country on the planet. Here's what he said in the first tweet from @POTUS:

All right, it's just a link to his inaugural address.

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Colin is Mashable's US & World Reporter. He previously interned at Foreign Policy magazine and The American Prospect. Colin is a graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. When he's not at Mashable, you can most likely find him eating or playing some kind of sport.

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