While Biden's Twitter restraint was a welcome change for some after four years of Trump's frenzied tweeting, others, such as GOP Senator John Cornyn, have taken issue with his media strategy. Whereas Trump heavily relied on his personal account, Biden's opted to send the bulk of his tweets from the official account reserved for the president.Īs of Wednesday, Biden has sent only about 180 tweets from his personal account and about 600 tweets from the Twitter handle assigned to POTUS. Trump tweeted about 1,000 times in his first 100 days in office, according to the Wayback Machine, and as of Wednesday evening, Biden had sent about 770. Biden also uses the social media platform to further his agenda, but 100 days into his presidency, his tweeting has taken a more traditional tone and isn't at the same level as Trump's. TikTok reportedly removed videos that it says incited violence at the Capitol, Reddit banned the popular subreddit group r/DonaldTrump for inciting violence and Snapchat also said Mr Trump would not be allowed to share content until the platform changes its mind.President Joe Biden has taken a more reserved approach to communicating with Americans than his predecessor did, including hitting the "send tweet" button about 25 percent less.įormer President Donald Trump embraced his title as the "Tweeter in Chief" and relied on the social media platform as a means of connecting with voters as he railed against media companies for being biased against him. YouTube said this week it was extending its ban on Mr Trump uploading videos or live-streaming to his channel for at least another week, and Facebook has also banned him indefinitely. Why wasn't the US Capitol prepared for an insurrection?.Multiple major social media networks issued various bans and suspensions to Mr Trump's accounts after a violent mob of supporters stormed the US Capitol earlier this month. It's not accessible on Twitter anymore, but it's unclear whether it will become part of an official public record at some stage. Mr Trump's personal Twitter account, made global headlines when the platform deactivated his account permanently earlier this month. Parler is popular with Trump supporters, and the platform "provided a safe space for supporters of the President to coalesce," University of Sydney researcher Jordan McSwiney told Hack. Parler posted this message on its website amid the social media platform being pulled from various app stores. Instead, followers will get in-app notifications with an option to follow the new leaders and associates. "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 will become will become will become will become and will become platform also said people who already follow will become followers of on inauguration day, or if you already follow you'll follow and so on.īut, the accounts will not automatically keep their followers from the prior administration - if you're following right now but not you'll be removed as a follower of that account. "As president-elect Biden is sworn in on January 20, 2021, Twitter will facilitate the transfer of institutional White House Twitter accounts," the statement said.
Twitter confirmed in a statement that it's "actively working with the US government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations." What happens to White House Twitter accounts when Joe Biden takes (President of the United States), (First Lady of the United States), (Vice President), and will all be handed over to the incoming representatives of those roles. Visit our US Politics page for all the latest news on Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Here's what we know about how the process works. The handles are reserved for official government use, and Twitter has been tasked with transferring them to the new administration. They're currently in the names of Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Mike Pence - but in a matter of hours, they won't actually be the POTUS, FLOTUS and VP anymore.Īnd just because their names are on it, it doesn't mean they own the usernames. The and Twitter accounts have tens of millions of followers between them.
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