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Twitter will not automatically transfer the profile used by current President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. The same is true not only with @POTUS, but also with @WhiteHouse, that of the president’s wife @FLOTUS and the press service @PressSec.
This was not the case when the post was delivered by Barack Obama to Trump on January 20, 2017. He was the first president to use the short message service for official communication and asked his successor to continue using followers of the existing profile . When the 44th President of the United States left the White House, his profile was renamed @ POTUS44 and frozen. At that time, there were 13.7 million followers.
Trump’s @POTUS profile already has more than 33 million followers. @WhiteHouse is followed by 26 million users, @FLOTUS – by 16.4 million, @PressSec – by 6.3 million. In less than a month, Trump’s profile will also be frozen and he will be renamed @ POTUS45.
Although he is world famous for posting multiple messages as soon as he wakes up, Trump rarely uses his official profile. He writes a lot on his personal @realDonaldTrump, where he has 88.5 million followers. Biden’s personal profile is followed by 21.6 million.
Biden will not automatically receive Trump followers, and anyone who follows the personal profiles of Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will receive a Twitter message. He will say that you can follow @ transition46, the official profile of the team to take power, and on January 20 it will be renamed @WhiteHouse.
At this time it is unknown why there will be no automatic transfer of subscribers from Trump to Biden. The Washington Post quoted a source from the future president’s team as saying it was due to a decision by Trump’s account manager.
A Twitter spokesman, Nick Pacilio, told the Wall Street Journal that Biden would receive 12 official profiles related to the presidency and that negotiations with his team were continuing.
