

Trump's tweets were often the target of these labels as he baselessly promoted election fraud. This year, Twitter took unprecedented steps to combat disinformation by adding labels to potentially harmful and misleading tweets. The president has used it to candidly express his opinions, to announce hirings and firings, to attack his opponents and to make official statements. president to use Twitter, but Trump has wielded the platform in a different way, which he once described as " MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL." "Just like -the website-is another asset that remains from administration to administration." "Obviously the followers who are part of that account are part of the value of building up that institutional asset," Goldman told The Wall Street Journal. Jason Goldman, who was previously Twitter's head of product and later the White House chief digital officer for Obama, said the account was intended to be used by whoever is in office.

"As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with the US government to support the transition of Twitter accounts across administrations," Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio said in a statement. In 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero. In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on and - at Team 44's urging. He also clarified that the decision was from Twitter, not from the Trump Administration. Accounts will archived - for example, the Trump-era account will be archived as team pushed back against Twitter's decision via email, Biden's digital director Rob Flaherty said in a tweet. The social network will instead notify followers they can follow the new account if they choose. The White House accounts include and which each have large followings. Former President Obama's 13 million followers were moved to the new account after President Trump took over. Twitter has confirmed the institutional White House Twitter accounts will not "automatically retain their existing followers."īiden's team is pushing back against the decision from Twitter, which is a reversal from the last presidential transition. Right now it's over 33.2 million, but that number will drop to zero after President-elect Joe Biden takes over the official account on Inauguration Day.

president's official Twitter account have? Twitter has stated that “these institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration.How many followers does the U.S. The Trump administration’s account has been archived as the same manner in which Barack Obama’s account was archived as Once the account has been archived, it is no longer able to tweet.Īccording to Twitter, other “ Institutional White House Twitter accounts” like and are subject to the same archival account process. See also: Stock market rallies as investors prepare for Biden inauguration, earnings roll in The process started by archiving the account history and sending it to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) where the tweets and overall account activity data will remain publicly available. On inauguration day, Twitter began the transfer and it is now complete- control of the Twitter account has now been given over to Joe Biden

8, the ban does not include the official account. While it is true that Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account was suspended on Jan.
