There are few things in this earth as sacred as a soul ’s Twitter followers . Sadly for President Barack Obama , he ’s move to have to give up all 11.1 million he ’s earned on the @POTUS Twitter handle when he leaves the Oval Office in January 2017 .
A newWhite House bulletinexplains exactly how it plans to “ conserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration . ” In a section on societal media , the theme goes into excessive item about how a digital transition of power will hap including an account of how President Obama ’s Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube , and even intermediate accounts will be transition to the next US president .
For the most part , it all sounds very logical . The President is going to give up the @POTUS handle on almost all the accounts he runs , meaning the hold itself will be reserved for any sitting US president that wants to interact with voters on social medium . But there ’s a catch ( emphasis ours ):
On Twitter , for example , the handle @POTUS will be made useable to the 45th President of the United States on January 20 , 2017 . The chronicle will hold its more than 11 million follower , but start up with no tweets on the timeline . @POTUS44 , a newly created handle maintain by NARA , will stop all of President Obama ’s tweet and will be approachable to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama ’s use of the account statement . In addition , President Obama ’s tweets will also be archived at NARA , where they will be keep and accessible in the same manner as all other Presidential record .
You read that right field : The next Chief Executive of the United States will be grant admission to the @POTUS handle and all of the 11.1 million followers sequester to the account . They wo n’t have to put in any oeuvre . The account will basically be given a sporting slate with a shitload of liberal followers , and all tweets from the account will be pass over .
So , in hypothesis , if Donald Trump wins , he will forcibly take President Obama ’s Twitter followers . Or you may think of it like this : Obama will be coerce to cede ascendancy of the account to his arch nemesis , Donald Trump . That ’s pretty rough .
This is obviously very important news for people who drop every waking hour on Twitter . After all , @POTUS has more than11.1 millionfollowers , which is pretty high-pitched for a politican ’s report . in good order now , Donald Trump ’s story ( @realDonaldTrump ) , one of the most active political accounts in the US , has has12.8 millionfollowers .
The great part is there ’s a Ag lining in this whole mess . President Obama will be allowed to keep the78.5 millionfollowers attach to his personal account ( @Barack Obama ) no matter what happens . The banging 78 million follower form Obama the fourthly - most popular Twitter report on the web , behind Taylor Swift ( 81 million ) , Justin Bieber ( 89 million ) , and Katy Perry ( 93 million ) .
So if Trump becomes the next US chairperson , at least we know he ’ll still be losing the Twitter popularity contest to Barack Obama and three insufferable pop stars .
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