Biden Twitter account 'starts from zero' with no Trump followers

[Wicked Blue]

BBC

US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.

The Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.

The new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.

In its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55675826

[soothsayer]

1. That's fine. They're vile

[CottonBear]

2. I just followed him!

574.1 K followers as of 10:02am EST.

President-Elect Biden don’t need no stinkin’ Dotard followers.

[marble falls]

3. Joe will do just fine without them, he did have 5 million more votes.

[frazzled]

4. Why would they be unhappy

to lose all those deplorables? I think it's necessary to cleanse the account. But then, I don't put much stock in counting up people's Twitter followings. I don't even have a Twitter account. I despise Twitter and wish it would disappear altogether.

[demmiblue]

5. Followed!

[Tarc]

6. Would think they'd be happy to kick the deadweight and Russian bot farms to the curb.

I'd love to run every 88.whatever million of those accounts thru botsentinel.com

[Mike 03]

7. @PresElectBiden

Followed!

[kairos12]

8. Following!!

[GemDigger]

9. 653,000+ right now.

The reason they did that was to get rid of the bad seeds that were following the bad seed. Quackanons, russians, trolls etc.

[jeffreyi]

10. 659k.

[lettucebe]

11. Why would he want to inherit horrible people and bots? This makes better sense

It's over 600k now and climbing.