Twitter account @barackobama had followed Rentboy.com
Among those who follow Rentboy.com — the male escort service busted Tuesday on prostitution charges — on Twitter is Organizing for Action, a pro-Obama group.
The Twitter account @barackobama, which is run by staff of the pro-Obama group Organizing for Action, had been following the account for an alleged online brothel busted Tuesday by the feds for promoting male prostitution.
Rentboy.com, which gets its name from the slang term for a male prostitute, counts @barackobama as one of its more than 20,000 Twitter followers.
The @barackobama account occasionally sends out tweets from the President himself, signed "b.o.," and is following more than 600,000 others. By Tuesday afternoon, hours after the Daily News reported the online connection, the @barackobama account unfollowed Rentboy.com.
Organizing for Action is an arm of the Democratic National Committee and supports the administration's agenda on issues such as climate change, immigration reform and reducing gun violence.