Trump and Obama switch Twitter Titles

Obama’s Twitter name for the last several years has been @POTUS. As the White House transitioned from Obama to Trump, the Twitter account was part of the transition.

All tweets from Obama’s presidency are archived under a new Twitter name @POTUS44. Twitter automatically switches all the 13 million followers of the Obama-presidency @POTUS to follow @POTUS44 and the @POTUS account for Trump.

damn I have to take @potus out of my following now. Sad, sad day.

— Iwillnotrun (@oriphiel) January 21, 2017

Did everyone's accounts automatically start following @POTUS? It happened to me and to others I know. #Unfollowed

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 21, 2017

#PSA: If you were following @POTUS and @FLOTUS during the Obama's era, now's the time to unfollow as it automatically switched over.

— Sahil Bhalla (@IMSahilBhalla) January 21, 2017

CEO Jack Dorsey explained why.

Because @POTUS is an institutional account (not personal) they felt it only fair to transition accounts with followers intact, but 0 tweets.

— jack (@jack) January 21, 2017

However, some people discovered they were following the new POTUS without having followed @POTUS. People who followed the archived @POTUS44 were also set to follow.

2. Some people who unfollowed @POTUS in the past were mistakenly marked to now follow @POTUS

— jack (@jack) January 21, 2017

Trump will still keep his personal @realDonaldTrump account and Obama is reusing his personal @BarackObama account.

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