It’s rare for a headline to be less exciting than the story underneath it - it’s generally the other way round - but I recall that when I briefly worked on my college newspaper we used the technique to downplay the successes of fellow students. It’s not exactly “man bites dog”, but it’s a perfectly respectable news event made to look insanely inconsequential by a mischievous headline. The headline, however, was misleading: further reading revealed that it was in fact the Friends of Whitchurch Hospital, who were holding a coffee morning at the Civic Centre(this coming Friday, if you’ve no plans). It’s all kicking off in Whitchurch, I thought to myself. On opening it I was confronted by the headline “Friends meet for coffee”. Stopping for petrol in rural Shropshire, a few miles from the Welsh border and within sight of the ‘Welcome to Cheshire’ sign - the middle of nowhere, that’s what I’m getting at -I impulse-bought a copy of the weekly Whitchurch Herald. “Don’t let your account become inactive or you might lose it ) #originalPOTUS”. When D’Alimonte decided to start tweeting under his own name, in 2011, he set free, a decision he has since come to regret. D’Alimonte told ’s Mic Wright that Roy was the person who convinced him to join Twitter. So who was then? And who is Roy? Credit goes to James Cook from Business Insider for solving the mystery: used to belong to a Torontonian called Steve D’Alimonte, who now tweets as in 2008 he was, you may not be surprised to hear, a committed West Wing fan - hence the username. After that the account fell mysteriously silent, until this week.īut Obama wasn’t even president in March 2008. The Mother Jones website discovered that the handle had been used before, specifically on 11 March 11 2008, to send the enigmatic tweet “Wondering what Roy got me into now”. Has the White House been squatting on the username for years, just in case? is meant to be a personal account, with tweets composed by the president himself. The president has been in control of the username since 2007, but that’s an official account, run by the staff of his non-profit Organising for Action project.
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