President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s team said Twitter told them they will wipe followers from the official POTUS and WhiteHouse accounts before transferring them to the new administration, breaking from what the social media giant did four years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama’s Twitter followers on\u00a0@POTUS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@WhiteHouse<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 at Team 44’s urging,\u201d Flaherty tweeted Tuesday. \u201cIn 2020, Twitter has informed us that as of right now the Biden administration will have to start from zero.\u201d<\/p>\n Twitter later released a statement confirming that the\u00a0WhiteHouse and POTUS accounts will not automatically retain their existing followers after they are transferred to the Biden administration on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n The POTUS account has 33.2 million followers, but it pales in comparison to President Trump\u2019s personal account\u2019s 88.5 million followers. When Trump leaves office, however, he may face greater challenges from Twitter on his personal account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s team said Twitter...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30180,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}