How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

&gt; The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account.<p>Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original tweets? I don&#x27;t understand how this will work.<p>Edit: The more I think about this the more confusing it sounds. Will the tweets be deleted? Will all the links break? This seems like a very messy way of handling the transition, unless I&#x27;m misunderstanding how it will work.

I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn&#x27;t be any reason why not. The general consensus was that if the next administration is a Democratic one, our work had a chance of staying alive.<p>One thing not mentioned in the article - everything archived by NARA ends up going to Obama&#x27;s official library. I&#x27;m curious if and how they&#x27;re going to make that accessible to the public.

What&#x27;s the plan for the 47th+ Presidents?<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus46" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus46</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus47" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus47</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus48" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus48</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus49" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus49</a><p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;potus50</a><p>- ...

&quot;the handle @POTUS will be made available to the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017... This will also be the case for other Twitter handles, including... @FLOTUS...&quot;<p>So if Hillary Clinton wins, they&#x27;re planning on scrubbing the FLOTUS handle&#x27;s tweets and giving the account to Bill Clinton without a name change?

In Argentina, the previous president (Cristina Kirchner) refused to give up the twitter account @CasaRosadaAR.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latintimes.com&#x2F;pulse&#x2F;cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner-refused-give-twitter-account-new-argentine-president-361467" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latintimes.com&#x2F;pulse&#x2F;cristina-fernandez-de-kirchn...</a>

Hi I want to point out that a while back &quot;Barack Obama&quot; created a github account.. press releases went out &quot;Obama learns to code&quot; ... but then the github account went down and was replaced by a similarly named one like presidentobama_bot or something like that. Sorry I don&#x27;t remember the exact string but it was odd.

I don&#x27;t understand the why of this transition. Why does it need to be moved to a new account? Why can&#x27;t it all just stay on the same account?

Besides the @POTUS handle, there will also be a @realPOTUS representing whoever thinks he or she is supposedly the real president but the election was rigged.

Everyone here is talking about what is going to happen if Hillary is elected.<p>Is @realDonaldTrump really going to give up tweeting from his account if elected? I&#x27;d be surprised.

The page says it will archive Obama&#x27;s snapchats. Now, I thought the #1 feature of SnapChat was that they are deleted afterwards. So how does that work? Did Obama screenshot every SnapChat he made?

Facebook.com&#x2F;ObamaWhiteHouse is a naming collision waiting to happen (president Michelle?)<p>Go with Facebook.com&#x2F;whitehouse44

Hmm, with all the renaming and so forth, so many links will rot. &gt;.&lt;

wait a minute... the President is communicating on a <i>private server account</i>? not via a &quot;secure&quot; government server? someone tell Comey quick so he can write another letter to Congress revealing this madness. We still have a week left.<p>I wonder if any other government employees are too. I wonder if any are passing classified info thru them, especially in DM&#x27;s.