Former president Bill Clinton has joined Twitter — and this time the ex-commander-in-chief is doing so without the help of comedian Stephen Colbert.
You may recall that Colbert helped Clinton send his first Tweet on air a few months ago under the unofficial account @PrezBillyJeff.
“What if you tweet and nobody tweets back?” Clinton said on the Colbert show earlier this month. “There’s nothing worse than a friendless tweeter, right? You’re just wandering around in cyberspace.”
But Clinton is now embracing Twitter, and the 42nd president already more than 280,000 followers @BillClinton.
https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/327266706915475456
One of those fans is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who welcomed the 42nd president to Twitter with this message:
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/327290328996524033
Meanwhile, here is what Colbert — one of the eight Twitter handles that Clinton is following — had to say about Clinton’s arrival on the social network.
https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/327270485320663040
Here was Colbert discussing Twitter, politics and more with Clinton earlier this month: