Twitter explains transfer of White House accounts as Biden's inauguration day closes in

American microblogging website, Twitter on January 14 laid out its plan for Inauguration Day in United States and transfer of White House accounts for incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris. In a blog post, Twitter explained that similar to in 2017, it has been working with United States government to support archival as well as transition of Twitter accounts across different ncies. Furr, US’ first Second Man, Kamala harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff will assume a newly created account with username @SecondGentleman.

Twitter said, “As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with US government to support archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations.”

“As President-elect Biden is sworn in on January 20, 2021, Twitter will facilitate transfer of institutional White House Twitter accounts, including @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, and @PressSec,” it added.

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Existing tweets will be publicly available, archived

Twitter also explained that firstly, website would transfer current institutional accounts to National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) where both tweets and account history will remain publicly available and account usernames will also be updated to reflect ir archived status. platform also explained with an example that @POTUS account will be publicly archived as @POTUS45 similar to Obama administration’s account has been archived as @POTUS44.

Twitter said, “Once this archival process is completed, Twitter will transfer institutional accounts to Biden administration to assume ownership, along with a new account: @SecondGentleman.”

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“People on Twitter will be able to watch transition of power take place in real-time as accounts for White House, President, Vice President, First Lady and White House Press Secretary inherit ir new institutional usernames: @Transition46 will become @WhiteHouse, @PresElectBiden will become @POTUS, @SenKamalaHarris will become @VP, @FLOTUSBiden will become @FLOTUS, and @PressSecPsaki will become @PressSec. Tweets, account history, and followers will transition between se accounts,” it explained while ackwledging that "institutional accounts will t automatically retain followers from prior administration."

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