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I’m starting Conference with this new Twitter feed about my role as Conservative Leader.
David Cameron opened his personal Twitter account on the eve of the Conservative Party conference. He said he would use it to post about his role as party leader.
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Why it mattered
The first post joked about how often he would tweet, recalling a remark he had made about Twitter in a 2009 radio interview. As a sitting prime minister, he was opening a new channel alongside the official Downing Street account.