@POTUS unscripted: Obama weighing in on pop culture, sports on personal Twitter account

Forget the prime-time interviews or the formal, choreographed news conferences. President Barack Obama is taking to Twitter to muse about sports, pop culture, even Supreme Court rulings — at all hours of the day.

The White House has used Twitter to promote the president's views for years, but mostly in a highly scripted manner, with tweets composed by press aides and released at strategic times. Only occasionally would Obama post to Twitter himself.

Now Obama is composing his own tweets almost daily, giving the president a real-time venue to weigh in on issues of the day from any location, without the filter of his press office. He's using the new, personal Twitter account @POTUS that he inaugurated earlier this summer.