The digital adviser to the president-elect Joe Biden, Rob Flaherty, announced today (Wednesday) that President-elect Joe Biden will not receive the 33.2 million followers of the official account of the President of the United States Donald Trump On the Twitter network, but will be forced to build his status on the social network from scratch.
It should be noted that these are not the personal accounts of the two presidents, in which they have a high number of followers, Trump with 88.5 million followers and Biden with 21.7 million followers, but the official account of the President of the United States who receives the @POTUS tag.
Tweets on Twitter (Photo: Ing Image)According to the social network’s plan, on January 20 with Biden’s inauguration, all followers of the president’s official user will be canceled, in addition to the official White House user (@WhiteHouse). Additional accounts that will be reset along with the President’s official user are the Vice President’s account, the First Woman, the U.S. Department of Press and Cabinet.
The social network’s decision is surprising, as it is completely the opposite of what was done in 2017, when President Trump got to receive all the followers of former President Barack Obama, while the tweets themselves were transferred to the network’s archive. Twitter did not disclose why the decision was made to delete the number of followers, but did say that “discussions are underway with Biden people on the issue, as they are not happy with the decision that will deprive them of many digital benefits.”
On the day of the change of government, and probably the deletion of followers, anyone who has followed one of the official users will be notified that the user has been archived, along with the option to “follow” the new user of President Biden. President Trump’s account will also change when he receives the new label – @ POTUS45, which marks Trump’s 45th presidency of the United States.
In addition, the page will receive “frozen” status, which indicates that it is not being used temporarily. In addition, security will be reduced at Trump’s personal expense, from which he tweeted a lot throughout his term (@realDonaldTrump)