Joe Biden must start presidential Twitter profiles at zero as Trump refuses to turn over accounts

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December 22, 2020
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Joe Biden must start presidential Twitter profiles at zero as Trump refuses to turn over accounts

President-elect Joe Biden will start his official Twitter accounts from scratch after taking office next month.

President Donald Trump absorbed all of his predecessor's followers on the official @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts, at Barack Obama's suggestion, but Biden's digital director confirmed that Twitter will not transfer those social media followers to the president-elect.

"In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse -- at Team 44's urging," Flaherty tweeted. "In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero."

Link to tweet

The @POTUS account has 33.2 million followers and @WhiteHouse account has 26 million followers.

https://www.rawstory.com/send/trump-biden-twitter/

[ananda]

1. Good!

Trump's is too tainted anyway.

[elleng]

2. The whole twitter thing's foolish, imo,

and certainly not 'official.'

Heck with it.

[octoberlib]

3. Fuck this asshole. He just wants to retain all those followers so he can run scams on them.

[gratuitous]

4. Trump will walk out of the White House with a LOT of stuff that doesn't belong to him

I don't know if it's formally enshrined in law or regulation, but everything a person receives as President of the United States belongs to the United States, not the person. Trump has treated the federal government as his personal possession for four years when he hasn't been gouging it for forcing the Secret Service to stay at his rat-infested properties (for example). Those twitter accounts don't belong to him any more than the Resolute Desk does.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Isn't that up to Twitter?

They've already threatened to cancel his feed. Don't they have some say about followers?

[napi21]

6. I don't care. HOPE the days of all the damn Presidential tweets are GONE! Let's go back to daily

briefings. If the aides, cabinet members, & congress want to tweet, fine. Lets get the Presidency back to normal.

[marble falls]

7. How about no Presidential Twitter???

[Mike 03]

8. Trump is embarrassed because if Biden inherits that account he'll find out

how many of those followers are paid for when the White House receives the annual bill for all the fake followers.

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

9. He really only tweets on his personal account though

The actual @POTUS account just retweets every crazy thing he says on his personal account. Just need to delete all that.

[WhiteTara]

10. He doesn't want those trolls and bots

on his brand new TL. Millions will follow as soon as it's up.

[CentralMass]

11. Hopefully twitter will ban the malignant narcissist after he is no longer POTUS and tries tweeting

ban worthy tweets.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Twitter can fend for itself.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Whatevs.

Most of 'em are probably flying monkeys and bots, and Biden is better off with a fresh start. If people want to continue following these accounts, they will. The rest are no loss.

I look forward to Biden doubling the number of followers once he takes over.

[dalton99a]

14. It's a terrible shame that the asshole didn't die from COVID.

[themaguffin]

15. It's not like this helps trump

[MineralMan]

16. Good. He doesn't need all those trolls that follow Trump.