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Obama Promises Graceful Social Media Transition for the Next President

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 02 2016, @01:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the here,-have-some-followers dept.

takyon writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @05:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 02 2016, @05:13PM (#421743)

    Remember there's not necessarily a 1:1 correspondence between POTUS, FLOTUS, and VP. If you number them all sequentially, they won't all have the same number, and if you give them the number of the corresponding president, it'll cause confusion.

    I have to think naming the archival accounts by date of taking and/or leaving office (e.g. "POTUS_2009-2016") would make more sense, so all three (and however many other eventually get handled that way) are easy to correctly associate, but also non-confusing.