Twitter will hand over the presidential account to Mr. Biden

In an email to reporters on November 20, Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio said the social network “is actively preparing to support the transfer of Twitter accounts from the White House on January 20.” 2021 “.

The above process is being carried out in consultation with the National Archives of EE. UU., As it did in 2017, said Pacilio.

The transfer will see all current White House Twitter accounts, @POTUS (for the president), @FLOTUS (for the first lady), @VP (for the vice president), and key accounts. Other modes are backed up data. The accounts will be completely clean again before being transferred to the new White House on January 20.

Twitter also noted that it will speak with the transfer of power group Biden-Harris soon to better understand how the new administration could use Twitter accounts.

Trump used Twitter to help build a political brand and later to exercise presidential power, even though he primarily used his personal @realDonaldTrump account, with 88 million followers. Total anti-official @POTUS account with 32 million followers.

The @POTUS account is largely used to re-register Trump’s personal accounts, as well as those of the White House and other accounts.

Trump’s habit of unexpectedly announcing new policies on Twitter has led to long-standing complaints about governance when tweeting. Twitter has been under pressure to limit the use of tweets by Trump to spread misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Since the election, Twitter has affixed warning labels to many of Trump’s tweets, which, as he continued without losing the election, claimed to have won against his rival Joe Biden and that the election had been scammed without testifying.

Meanwhile, Biden uses Twitter a lot less. He posted fewer than 7,000 tweets to an account with 19 million followers, compared to 58,000 of Trump’s tweets.

peaceful
According to the AFP