“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
The presidential @POTUS Twitter handle will automatically transfer to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in at noon on Inauguration Day — whether or not President Donald Trump has conceded, the company confirmed to POLITICO on Friday.
Same goes for @whitehouse, @VP, @FLOTUS, and a handful other official accounts associated with the presidency.
“Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio said in an email. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration.”
The handover requires no sharing of information between the outgoing Trump team and incoming Biden team, according to the company. All existing tweets on those accounts will be archived and Twitter will transfer the accounts — reset to zero tweets — to the Biden White House that day.
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Why it might not matter: President Trump has used his personal account, @realDonaldTrump, for most of his tweeting even while president. Trump, as a private citizen, will keep control of that account.
That said, the account will lose the protections it carries under Twitter’s “world leaders” policy — which allows rule-breaking tweets to remain up, with warning labels — the moment that Biden is sworn in to office.
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Twitter will automatically transfer @POTUS to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in on Inauguration Day — whether or not President Donald Trump has conceded https://t.co/SIuMGYAMzV
— POLITICO (@politico) November 20, 2020
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