{"id":2988,"date":"2017-01-20T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/president-trump-has-officially-taken-over-potus.html"},"modified":"2017-01-20T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:02:19","slug":"president-trump-has-officially-taken-over-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/president-trump-has-officially-taken-over-potus.html","title":{"rendered":"President Trump has officially taken over @POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It\u2019s official. As of about an hour ago Donald Trump is the 45th President of The United States of America.<\/p>\n

One question regarding the transition was\u00a0how the social media handoff would occur between outgoing former President Obama and President Trump.<\/p>\n

And now about an hour in, some of these accounts are starting\u00a0to switch over.<\/p>\n

The most important one is probably @POTUS on Twitter<\/a>, which now redirects to a new page for President Trump. While it only says he has about 4M followers now, this number will eventually creep back up<\/a> to the almost 14M followers that former President Obama had on @POTUS, as soon as Twitter completes the migration.<\/p>\n

Notably President Trump hasn\u2019t\u00a0tweeted anything from the @POTUS account yet, but has tweeted about 10 times in the last hour from his personal @realDonaldTrump <\/a>handle. He did tell us to expect this though, since his personal handle has about 10 million more followers than @POTUS does.<\/p>\n

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And if you\u2019re looking for the old POTUS, President Obama\u2019s new Twitter is @POTUS44 on Twitter<\/a> \u2013 and he still has his old tweets and followers from his old account. So if you followed @POTUS you\u2019ll still be following President Obama on his new @POTUS44 account. He also has a personal account @BarackObama<\/a>\u00a0you can follow, which actually\u00a0has over 80M followers \u2013 many more than he ever had on the @POTUS account.<\/p>\n

The same happened to former First Lady Michelle Obama \u2013 Her @FLOTUS<\/a> handed has been handed over to First Lady Melania Trump, and the former First Lady\u2019s tweets and followers have been transferred to @FLOTUS44<\/a>. She also asked followers\u00a0to follow her new personal account @MichelleObama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Vice President Mike Pence has assumed control of @VP<\/a>,\u00a0and Joe Biden now has @VP44.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

For a company that isn\u2019t exactly the most organized right now (at least when it comes to the product department), Twitter has done a pretty good job of managing this transition \u2013 especially since it\u2019s never been done before.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Alex Wong<\/a>\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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