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SCOOP: The Biden team has just launched @PresElectBiden to build followers for Inauguration Day when they’ll get the @potus handle. But Biden’s aides complain they’re not getting same treatment as Trump, who got all of Obama’s @potus and @whitehouse followers.
There are a bunch of other new accounts that have just gone live including:
@flotusbiden which will become @flotus
@secondgentleman
@presssecpsaki which will become @PressSec
And @SenKamalaHarris will become @vp. Previously announced @transition46 becomes @whitehouse.
@flotusbiden which will become @flotus
@secondgentleman
@presssecpsaki which will become @PressSec
And @SenKamalaHarris will become @vp. Previously announced @transition46 becomes @whitehouse.
“They are advantaging Pres Trump’s first days of the admin over ours,” @Rob_Flaherty said. “If we don’t end the day w the 12m followers that Donald Trump inherited from Barack Obama, then they have given us less than they gave DT, & that is a failure.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-team-starts-preselectbiden-while-clashing-with-twitter?sref=PqmVp1JY
More social media news: Facebook and Instagram followers of White House accounts will automatically follow Trump archives and Biden pages. YouTube is also carrying over WH followers. Twitter says it’s not technically possible, to Biden team’s chagrin. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-team-starts-preselectbiden-while-clashing-with-twitter?sref=PqmVp1JY
Why did the Biden folks want Twitter followers who might be Trump supporters? “There is value in being able to communicate with an audience that doesn’t agree with us,” @Rob_Flaherty said. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-team-starts-preselectbiden-while-clashing-with-twitter?sref=PqmVp1JY
Twitter state of play: The incoming president’s team isn’t happy with the company. The current president’s been banned permanently. Many people working in politics and media spend their days on this here platform. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-team-starts-preselectbiden-while-clashing-with-twitter?sref=PqmVp1JY
Contra Twitter, Facebook stresses it’s handling this transition just as it did the last one. “We’re following the same procedures we used during the transfer between the Obama and Trump admin when P-e Biden is sworn into office next wk,” @dani_lever says. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-team-starts-preselectbiden-while-clashing-with-twitter?srnd=premium&sref=PqmVp1JY
