Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts
This will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I'll be using @JoeBiden. And while you're here, follow @FLOTUSBiden @SenKamalaHarris @SecondGentleman and @Transition46. Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty : On inaug day: -FB is transferring @JoeBiden's followers over to POTUS -Snap is handing us @WhiteHouse -YT is giving us all of the @WhiteHouse Subs -Twitter is starting us at zero...but recommended the President of the United States tag other accounts to encourage growth @morninggloria : Bore me daddy https://twitter.com/... @twittercomms : What to expect on Twitter on US Inauguration Day 2021, including details on transferring institutional White House Twitter accounts: https://blog.twitter.com/... Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty : There's a lot of ~~normal~~ people who follow the President in the same way they follow...The Rock or Demi Lovato. It's actually a pretty normal early behavior in joining a social network! It's why the account is a public good. https://twitter.com/... Jen Psaki / @jrpsaki : remember when @barackobama passed 12 million Twitter followers on to Trump team for the @potus account he had started and Twitter embraced it? I do... https://www.bloomberg.com/... Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald : Also, what happened to all the mature cable personalities saying that only children and losers worry about their follower counts (as if they don't), and that it's immoral in a pandemic - when thousands are dying daily - to focus on trivialities like this? https://twitter.com/... Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald : It's a bit dizzying watching Democrats frenetically alternate between “Silicon Valley companies are private corporations that can do whatever they want” (when they censor Dems' adversaries" to “we're the Party about to take power and it's outrageous what you're dong here”: https://twitter.com/... Jennifer Epstein / @jeneps : Why did the Biden folks want Twitter followers who might be Trump supporters? “There is value in being able to communicate with an audience that doesn't agree with us,” @Rob_Flaherty said. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Kate Bedingfield / @kbeds : You should follow this account - but you also won't have to wake up at night with a start to anxiously see what this account has tweeted. https://twitter.com/... Preet Bharara / @preetbharara : Joe Biden will never tweet “covfefe” https://twitter.com/... Zara Rahim / @zararahim : Can someone explain to me what Twitter's reasoning was for this weird decision????? https://twitter.com/... Tim Fullerton / @timfullerton : Worth pointing out again that Twitter gave the Trump Administration all the Obama Admins followers in 2017. A huge advantage for a new president trying to reach a large audience of people who didn't follow him or his campaign. https://twitter.com/... @davejorgenson : I'm gonna need some time to think about it before I follow @POTUS again. There's just a lot of history there. https://twitter.com/... Megafrican Thee Stallion / @wstafrican : I've had all the accounts named in this article blocked for four years LMAO can't wait to see tweets from FLOTUS and VP again https://twitter.com/... @variety : As part of the transition of White House accounts, @Twitter has established a new account for Kamala Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff: @SecondGentleman https://variety.com/... Rahul Dholakia / @rahuldholakia : This is a first !! Congratulations and best wishes @SecondGentleman https://twitter.com/... Tim Fullerton / @timfullerton : Excited to have these accounts back in good hands. Still think it's BS they're not transferring the followers over though like they did in 2017. https://twitter.com/... Brandon / @launerts : “@Transition46 will become @WhiteHouse, @PresElectBiden will become @POTUS, @SenKamalaHarris will become @VP, @FLOTUSBiden will become @FLOTUS, and @PressSecPsaki will become @PressSec.” https://twitter.com/... Emily Goodin / @emilylgoodin : Twitter outlines how the official White House and related accounts (POTUS, FLOTUS, etc) will be transferred to the Biden administration. And there will be a new official account for the first time: @SecondGentleman https://blog.twitter.com/... Olivia Krauth / @oliviakrauth : “Once this archival process is completed, Twitter will transfer the institutional accounts to the Biden administration to assume ownership, along with a new account: @SecondGentleman.” https://twitter.com/... Claire Atkinson / @claireatki : “the Trump administration's @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45, just as the Obama administration's account was archived as @POTUS44.” https://twitter.com/... Chris Cristi / @abc7chriscristi : New Twitter account established for first ever @SecondGentleman https://twitter.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : I think this is quite possibly the reason, yeah. Twitter looks at Trump's followers and thinks “is it really good for American democracy for all these people to be in the replies of every Biden tweet” https://twitter.com/... Alex Hern / @alexhern : I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons for not repeating the process Twitter invented in 2012, but there's no good reasons for not repeating the process *and also not explaining why you're not repeating the process* Alex Hern / @alexhern : it's really minor in the grand scheme of things but I can't shake the fact that this is sort of scandalous https://gizmodo.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Happy to do an old-school #FF Friday Follow for your guy to get him going. 😂 in all seriousness, it may end up being better with the clean start rather than inheriting the last fella. https://twitter.com/... @kerrymflynn : 👀 “As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with the US government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations... @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, and @PressSec.” https://twitter.com/...
Folks — This will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I'll be using @JoeBiden. And while you're here, follow @FLOTUSBiden @SenKamalaHarris @SecondGentleman and @Transition46.
On inaug day: -FB is transferring @JoeBiden's followers over to POTUS -Snap is handing us @WhiteHouse -YT is giving us all of the @WhiteHouse Subs -Twitter is starting us at zero...but recommended the President of the United States tag other accounts to encourage growth
What to expect on Twitter on US Inauguration Day 2021, including details on transferring institutional White House Twitter accounts: https://blog.twitter.com/...
There's a lot of ~~normal~~ people who follow the President in the same way they follow...The Rock or Demi Lovato. It's actually a pretty normal early behavior in joining a social network! It's why the account is a public good. https://twitter.com/...
remember when @barackobama passed 12 million Twitter followers on to Trump team for the @potus account he had started and Twitter embraced it? I do... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Also, what happened to all the mature cable personalities saying that only children and losers worry about their follower counts (as if they don't), and that it's immoral in a pandemic - when thousands are dying daily - to focus on trivialities like this? https://twitter.com/...
It's a bit dizzying watching Democrats frenetically alternate between “Silicon Valley companies are private corporations that can do whatever they want” (when they censor Dems' adversaries" to “we're the Party about to take power and it's outrageous what you're dong here”: https:…
Why did the Biden folks want Twitter followers who might be Trump supporters? “There is value in being able to communicate with an audience that doesn't agree with us,” @Rob_Flaherty said. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
You should follow this account - but you also won't have to wake up at night with a start to anxiously see what this account has tweeted. https://twitter.com/...
Worth pointing out again that Twitter gave the Trump Administration all the Obama Admins followers in 2017. A huge advantage for a new president trying to reach a large audience of people who didn't follow him or his campaign. https://twitter.com/...
As part of the transition of White House accounts, @Twitter has established a new account for Kamala Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff: @SecondGentleman https://variety.com/...
Excited to have these accounts back in good hands. Still think it's BS they're not transferring the followers over though like they did in 2017. https://twitter.com/...
“@Transition46 will become @WhiteHouse, @PresElectBiden will become @POTUS, @SenKamalaHarris will become @VP, @FLOTUSBiden will become @FLOTUS, and @PressSecPsaki will become @PressSec.” https://twitter.com/...
Twitter outlines how the official White House and related accounts (POTUS, FLOTUS, etc) will be transferred to the Biden administration. And there will be a new official account for the first time: @SecondGentleman https://blog.twitter.com/...
“Once this archival process is completed, Twitter will transfer the institutional accounts to the Biden administration to assume ownership, along with a new account: @SecondGentleman.” https://twitter.com/...
“the Trump administration's @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45, just as the Obama administration's account was archived as @POTUS44.” https://twitter.com/...
I think this is quite possibly the reason, yeah. Twitter looks at Trump's followers and thinks “is it really good for American democracy for all these people to be in the replies of every Biden tweet” https://twitter.com/...
I'm sure there's plenty of good reasons for not repeating the process Twitter invented in 2012, but there's no good reasons for not repeating the process *and also not explaining why you're not repeating the process*
Happy to do an old-school #FF Friday Follow for your guy to get him going. 😂 in all seriousness, it may end up being better with the clean start rather than inheriting the last fella. https://twitter.com/...
👀 “As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with the US government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations... @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, and @PressSec.” https://twitter.com/...