{"id":30746,"date":"2021-01-15T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30746"},"modified":"2021-01-15T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T00:57:36","slug":"biden-launches-new-twitter-account-ahead-of-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30746","title":{"rendered":"Biden launches new Twitter account ahead of inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden\u2019s transition team launched a new Twitter account late Thursday that will eventually become the institutional @POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>The new account, @PresElectBiden, will transfer its followers and posts over after the inauguration on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s aides have complained that Twitter is making the new administration start from zero on institutional accounts \u2014 @POTUS and @WhiteHouse \u2014 while Trump inherited former President Obama\u2019s millions of followers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,&#8221; Twitter said Thursday. &#8220;People on Twitter who previously followed institutional White House Twitter accounts, or who currently follow relevant Biden or Harris Twitter accounts, will receive in-app alerts and other prompts that will notify them about the archival process, as well as give them the option to follow the new administration\u2019s Twitter accounts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden\u2019s transition team launched a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-30746","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\/30746","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=30746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30747,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30746\/revisions\/30747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}