Obama set a Guinness World Record on Twitter

Robert Downey Jr. set a Guinness World Record when he launched his official Twitter account and accumulated more than a million followers in a little less than a day. That’s pretty impressive, but Barack Obama managed to do the same thing in less than five hours earlier this week when he took control of the @POTUS account, which means “President of the United States.”

Barack Obama has set a Guinness World Record for the fastest time to reach one million Twitter followers, after the President of the United States took control of the @POTUS account a few days ago. The record-breaking time Obama managed to set was “less than five hours”, according to Guinness officials, smashing the old record held by Robert Downey Jr. of 23 hours and 22 minutes. However the @POTUS account currently lags behind @RobertDowneyJr for total followers, at 2.1 million versus 4.5 million. The record for fastest time to one million followers isn’t the only record President Obama holds. His other account, @BarackObama, has the most followers of any politician at nearly 60 million. The tweet of Obama and his wife embracing after his 2012 re-election is also still in the top three most retweeted tweets of all time.