The White House got a little more hip today:
We’re excited today to launch @michelleobama as a new way for you to connect with First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s campaign.
You got it – First Lady Michelle Obama has joined the Twitterscape. A couple of subsequent posts gave some details as to what people can expect to see from her account:
This account will be managed by campaign staff, with any tweets from the First Lady herself signed “-mo.”
Hi, everyone, and thanks for the warm welcome. Look forward to staying in touch with you here. -mo
Shortly after the account went live, according to Mashable, the terms “First Lady” and “Welcome to Twitter” became trending topics as the Twitterscape received Ms. Obama. In fact, she even got a special welcome from a familiar face:
It’s not every day we get to welcome the First Lady of the United States to Twitter—happy to have you, @MichelleObama!
It’s kinda cute, really, like watching two high school sweethearts exchange knowing looks of affection from across the classroom. People other than her husband also greeted her arrival today. Lots of notable Twitterers chimed in as people expressed felicitations while others, because this is the Internet, just had to be sour mouths about the whole thing:
Let’s all welcome our First Lady @MichelleObama to Twitter.
Michelle obama got 100,000 followes with in hours after she launched her twitter
.@MichelleObama has been on Twitter for 6 hours. She has 119,976 followers, 222 more than @GovernorPerry
Welcome to Twitter, @michelleobama. I admire you as a lawyer, a healthy snacks advocate & a woman. You truly are America’s First Lady.
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Welcome to Twitter, @MichelleObama! Let me give you some advice. On Twitter, you only get 140 characters to write your message, try not to m
Usually following @MichelleObama will get you shot. Not here! Yay Twitter! Let’s all do it. She is pretty spectacular.
Hello Everyone!!! Let’s welcome @michelleobama to twitter !!!
If @MichelleObama doesn’t follow us soon, we’re going to feed a whole chocolate cake to a kid that needs to lose weight.
Hey @michelleobama, Be honest, how long does it typically take you to submit Barry with a full nelson? Under 15 seconds?
I’m so excited @MichelleObama‘s on Twitter! Can’t wait for her tweets telling us to eat more veggies and stop being such fatasses!
Michelle Obama is on Twitter!! I could follow her….or I could shoot myself