“If an account suddenly is not a world leader anymore, that particular policy goes away,” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said at a Senate hearing last month. Other presidential accounts that will be moving to the Biden team include and as previously reported, after Trump leaves office he will lose the special exemption that Twitter applies to political leaders under which the social network flags (but does not remove) posts that would be considered policy violations for regular users. “In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.”Ĭurrently, has 33.2 million followers on Twitter and has 26 million. In 2016, “the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama’s Twitter followers on and - at Team 44’s urging,” Rob Flaherty, the Biden campaign’s digital director, tweeted earlier Tuesday. That’s a change from what happened when Trump took over the White House four years ago. “Instead, Twitter will notify followers of these accounts to provide context that the content will be archived and allow them the choice to follow the Biden administration’s new accounts.” The White House accounts “will not automatically retain their existing followers,” a Twitter rep said in a statement sent to Variety Tuesday. The existing posts from the Trump administration will be archived on new accounts (e.g., and maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Inauguration Day, Twitter will issue prompts to existing followers of and others to re-follow the new Biden-controlled accounts if they choose.

20, 2021, as the 46th president of the United States.īut with the changeover, the Biden team will not inherit the accounts’ existing followers. UPDATED: Donald Trump and his administration will lose access to Twitter’s official White House accounts - including and - when Joe Biden is sworn in on Jan.

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