Barack Obama has to borrow an iPhone to tweet
For security purposes — and perhaps also by preference? — the President of the United States of America uses a BlackBerry. This created some confusion today when Barack Obama snapped up the @POTUS Twitter account and some savvy users discovered that he was tweeting from an iPhone.
“I’m not allowed for security reasons to have an iPhone.” – @POTUS Dec. 2013 -> pic.twitter.com/iZxU6OFu6F
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 18, 2015
This nearly devolved into a national scandal, but both The Washington Post and BuzzFeed have determined that the device belonged generally to the Executive Office of the President, not to the president himself. (It is unclear if the president’s “secure” phone has, or is able to use, Twitter.)
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Source:: The Verge
