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The next President of the United States will inherit the keys to the social media kingdom:
What happens to President Barack Obama's 11.1 million Twitter followers on Inauguration Day? The White House says Obama's official @POTUS account will be taken over by the next president, who will start with a huge following but a clean slate of tweets. Obama's tweets will move over to a new handle, @POTUS44, by the National Archives and Records Administration.
The same will take place with Obama's Facebook and Instagram accounts, along with other Twitter accounts including Michelle Obama's @FLOTUS and Joe Biden's @VP accounts.
You can read all about it on the White House weblog.
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Obama Promises Graceful Social Media Transition for the Next President
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Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:03AM
1. find a way to get the worst possible candidates running against each other.
2. find a way to get power/money/sex so mixed up, none of the candidates or their spouses or children seem to know what is "correct" behaviour around women.
3. have so many dodgy, broken, hackable election technologies that no one can really trust the results, anyway.
I'd say that shows innovation.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:06AM
3. have so many dodgy, broken, hackable election technologies that no one can really trust the results, anyway.
But it's okay because they're all vulnerable in different ways. Isn't it nice to have a variety of proprietary black boxes used to count votes? Don't you just feel completely secure?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:17AM
I'm still in awe of the old-school foul-up, the hanging chad.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bogsnoticus on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:25AM
To me, a "hanging chad" just sounds like someone didn't learn how to wipe their arse properly.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday November 02 2016, @03:50AM
It's Dangling Chad, and they don't call him that for no reason!
jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 02 2016, @08:34AM
As any real Aussie knows, they're called "dags", as in "rattle your dags!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @05:05AM
> 1. find a way to get the worst possible candidates running against each other.
Oh please. clinton is far from the worst possible candidate. she's an ambitiously competent bureaucrat, no different from someone like biden or gore. but as there is no archetype for an ambitiously competent woman the cognitive dissonance is strong and the more rigid someone is, the more they seek external justification for that dissonance.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 02 2016, @06:22AM
So, hyperbole.
I am sure there are a few people out of the eligible millions who'd be better candidates, and a better President than either of the current options.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 02 2016, @12:58PM
I am sure there are a few people out of the eligible millions who'd be better candidates
Not really. The cognitive dissonance is thick.
If the BS thats taught in schools and promoted by corporate media is true, then whats going on is nonsense.
In the real world, the establishment has owned both parties for decades and given a fake choice based on social issues where nothing is ever changed by the candidates. So you got globalist establishment corporate shill Hillary.
To oppose that as a private citizen you need to be a lifelong billionaire at least, and willing to give the system the finger. So thats ... what... Trump? Maybe Peter Thiel next election cycle? If there had been no trump we'd be stuck with an establishment shill cuckservative neocon like paul "the traitor" ryan or probably low-T jeb.
The globalist candidates are excellent candidates always doing what they're paid to do, if you're a globalist. If you're a mere citizen they suck because the leaders are paid to ignore us or use us as cannon fodder and they pretty much stay bought.
That is the source of panic about Trump.