Twitter will take control of the @POTUS account from Donald
Trump on Joe Biden’s inauguration day, the company has reportedly
said © MANDEL NGAN Twitter will take control of the @POTUS account
from Donald Trump on Joe Biden’s inauguration day, the company has
reportedly said
Twitter will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to
Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if
President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss, US media
reported Friday.
The social media giant is “actively preparing to support the
transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January
20th, 2021,” Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio told Politico in an
email.
The process is being done in consultation with the National
Archives, as it was in 2017, he said.
The handover will see all existing tweets on @POTUS, as well as
@FLOTUS, @VP and other official accounts, archived.
The accounts will then be reset to zero tweets and transferred
to the incoming Biden White House that day.
Trump, who still has not conceded his November 3 loss,
used Twitter to help build his political brand and, later, wield
the power of the presidency — though he mainly uses his personal
account, @realDonaldTrump, whose 88 million followers dwarf
@POTUS’s 32 million.
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The @POTUS account is largely used to retweet Trump’s personal
account as well as the White House and other accounts.
Trump’s frequent habit of abruptly announcing new policies on
the platform has led to long-standing complaints of governing by
tweet.
Twitter has long come under pressure to curb the president’s use
of the site to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Since the election the company has slapped warning
labels on many Trump tweets as he continues to insist, despite
evidence to the contrary, that he won the vote, and that Biden’s
victory is down to massive fraud.
Biden, for his part, is a far more sedate Twitter user. He has
sent less than 7,000 tweets to his 19 million followers, compared
to Trump’s 58,000
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