The Prime Minister, David Cameron, is finally set to follow other world leaders, most notably Barack Obama, and join Twitter.

The Telegraph reports that Cameron will join Twitter in time for the Conservative Party Conference, which takes place in Birmingham, in the second week of October.

Cameron has previously left Twitter to the @Number10gov account, which has more than 2.1 million followers.

According to the Telegraph the Prime Minister’s account “will be more personal and he will be able to make political points”, which hasn’t been what the @Number10gov has been about.

That account been more of a neutral official government PR service Tweeting announcements, meetings and events that the Prime Minister is involved with such as his upcoming trip to New York and appearance on David Letterman

With so much focus on the use of social media in the 2012 US election it is a wonder that it has taken Team Cameron this long to work out that building a strong presence on Twitter might be politically useful — particularly for a party that is seen as aloof and out of touch.

“Sources said he is hoping the micro-blogging site will help him communicate more directly with people.

“They said it is too early to say whether Mr Cameron will be tweeting directly or dictating to aides.

“The Prime Minister has in the past had reservations about the wisdom of politicians talking directly to the public through Twitter,” the Telegraph reports.

“Too many tweets might make you a twat”

The move shows how times have changed. When Cameron was asked about his views on Twitter back in 2009, he famously said there is a danger that “too many tweets might make you a twat”.

Cameron said he had reservations about the instant nature of Twitter as you can see in this interview.

It will be interesting to see if Cameron takes on some of the tweeting duties as does Labour leader Ed Miliband who tweets some content himself while the rest is done by his team. Miliband has 161,394 followers.

Will Cameron be able to top that? He could almost certainly top the follows of his deputy Nick Clegg who just 90,658 followers.