Here s Why Biden Won t Inherit Trump s Twitter Followers On @WhiteHouse, @POTUS
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Twitter users will receive a notification suggesting they follow the incoming administration s officials accounts
Trump will be required to follow the Twitter rules for private citizens once he leaves office
The Biden administration will soon run the official Twitter account of the White House and the President of the United States, but the accounts will not follow the social media practices of previous administrations.
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How many followers does the U.S. president s official Twitter account have?
Right now it s over 33.2 million, but that number will drop to zero after President-elect Joe Biden takes over the official @POTUS account on Inauguration Day.
Twitter has confirmed that the institutional White House Twitter accounts will not automatically retain their existing followers.
Biden s team is pushing back against Twitter s decision, which is a reversal from the last presidential transition. Former President Barack Obama s 13 million followers were moved to the new @POTUS account after President Trump took over.
The White House accounts include @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, @PressSec, @Cabinet and @LaCasaBlanca, each of which has large a following.
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Dec 23, 2020 07:16 AM EST
Twitter accounts @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, or the other official presidential handles followers would not be transferred on the day of the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on January 20, 2021. This is in contrast to when President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017 when the official Twitter accounts were taken over by the Trump administration with their followers intact at the acknowledgment of the outgoing Obama government.
Twitter to Wipe POTUS Account s Followers
According to Joe Biden s presidential campaign digital director on Tuesday, the social media platform company told the Biden team it would be wiping followers from the official POTUS (President of the United States) and White House Twitter handles upon being bequeathed to the incoming administration.
Twitter to wipe POTUS account s followers ahead of Biden inauguration day ANI | Updated: Dec 23, 2020 14:59 IST
Washington [US], December 23 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden s presidential campaign digital director on Tuesday said that Twitter told the Biden team that it would be wiping followers from the official POTUS (President of the United States) and White HouseTwitter accounts before transferring them to the new administration.
According to The Hill, the move would be different than what the social media platform did in 2016 while transferring the accounts to now outgoing President Donald Trump s administration from former President Barack Obama s administration, said the Biden campaign s digital director, Rob Flaherty.