Good news: Obama will now be writing his own tweets

Gearing up for campaign 2012, Obama's Organizing for America announced this weekend that the commander-in-chief will be taking the helm of his official Twitter and Facebook pages to write his own messages to followers.

OMG.  I'm just like so excited:

Starting today, you'll notice something new about President Obama's Facebook page and his Twitter account, @BarackObama.

Obama for America staff will now be managing both accounts, posting daily updates from the campaign trail, from Washington, and everywhere in between. You'll be hearing from President Obama regularly, too; on Twitter, tweets from the President will be signed "-BO."

The president's first tweet appeared Sunday -- a Father's Day greeting to his Twitter account's 8.7 million followers: