In a shift, Twitter won't transfer followers of official White House accounts when Biden takes office.

U.S.|In a shift, Twitter won’t transfer followers of official White House accounts when Biden takes office.Dec. 22, 2020, 6:46 p.m. ETDec. 22, 2020, 6:46 p.m. ETBy Bryan PietschPresident-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. He will not automatically inherit President Trump’s followers after his inauguration.Credit…Amr Alfiky/The New York TimesIf you follow @POTUS, @WhiteHouse or the other official presidential handles on Twitter, you’ll have to re-follow them on Jan. 20 when President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office.When President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the official handles were taken over by the Trump White House with their followers intact, at the encouragement of the outgoing Obama administration.This time, however, Twitter will not be transferring the followers when those handles shift to the new Biden administration. (@POTUS has more than 33 million followers; @WhiteHouse has more than 26 million.)Instead, Twitter said on Tuesday that it would notify users who follow the Trump administration’s official accounts that those accounts will be archived, and that they can follow the Biden administration’s new iterations of those handles if they choose. (Mr. Trump’s @realDonaldTrump, which has 88.5 million followers, is a personal account and will not be part of the transfer.)People who…
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