Before the inauguration, “Twitter is actively working with the U.S. government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations,” the company said in a statement.
As Biden is sworn in, Twitter will transport White House accounts including @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, and @PressSec.
Twitter will first carry the accounts to the National Archives and Records Administration so the tweets and account history can stay publicly available. President Donald Trump’s @POTUS account, for instance, will be archived as @POTUS45 before @POTUS is transferred to Biden’s team.
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Twitter is also attaching a new account for Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The account will be @SecondGentleman.
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“People on Twitter will be able to watch the transition of power take place in real-time as accounts for the White House, President, Vice President, First Lady, and White House Press Secretary inherit their new institutional usernames,” Twitter said. For instance, the account of Jen Psaki, Biden’s incoming press secretary, will become @PressSec. Her tweets, account history, and followers will move.
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But the institutional accounts won’t keep followers from the prior administration. People who followed Trump administration accounts will receive an immediate notification of the transition. They’ll be given the possibility of proceeding to follow the accounts.
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Biden on Thursday night remarked on the upcoming switch.
“Folks—This will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I’ll be using @JoeBiden,” he tweeted.
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Mark Zuckerberg started to reflect permanently banning President Donald Trump's Facebook account late on the night of Jan. 6, just moments after a crowd of Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, for years had taken a mostly hands-off approach to Trump's allegations of fraud in the elections, advocating free expression and the newsworthiness of his statements as an expanding group of critics outside and inside the company called for him to take more aggressive action.
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But after a series of conversations with his top officers — including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg; Monika Bickert, the head of global content policy; global affairs chief Nick Clegg; and Joel Kaplan, the company's vice president of global public policy and its top emissary to Republicans in Washington — Zuckerberg had come to believe that Trump's provocation of violence to reverse the election crossed a line, according to people familiar with the conversations who asked not to be named because the talks were private.
Earlier in the day, Facebook banned Trump's account for 24 hours. Now, Zuckerberg was planning a far more thorough ban: one that would last at least through the end of Trump's term.
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