Bill Clinton received a warm welcome from Twitter, after the former U.S. president officially joined the microblogging network Wednesday night.
Welcome to Twitter @billclinton, 42nd President of the United States and founder of @clintonfdn.
— Twitter Government (@gov) April 25, 2013
Under the handle @BillClinton, he sent out two tweets on Wednesday, including one in which he expressed excitement at joining his daughter and comedian Stephen Colbert on Twitter:
Excited to join @chelseaclinton and my good friend @stephenathome on Twitter!
— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) April 25, 2013
But those who visit Clinton's Twitter account will notice a third, noticeably sillier tweet sent on April 6. That message was actually written by Colbert (as dictated to him by Clinton) during an interview with the president on a special edition of The Colbert Report. At that time, thecomedian had opened a Twitter account for Clinton under the handle @PrezBillyJeff, which now has its tweets protected.
Just spent amazing time with Colbert!Is he sane? He is cool! #cgiu
— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) April 6, 2013
For his part, Colbert celebrated Clinton's Twitter membership by, naturally, sending a tweet himself:
I taught @billclinton to tweet! This is almost as exciting as the time I taught Cheney "Dance Dance Revolution."
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) April 25, 2013
Prior to his official debut, Clinton's only Twitter presence was through the Clinton Foundation(@ClintonFdn). At the time of this writing, Clinton has over 215,000 followers and counting.
