Posted on 12/25/2020 11:06:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN)President-elect Joe Biden's transition team has criticized Twitter's decision to not allow the millions of followers of the White House Twitter accounts to be automatically retained when the accounts are handed over to the new administration.
"Twitter's reluctance to transfer millions of followers from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration unnecessarily politicizes what otherwise should be a routine transfer of communication from one administration to the next," Biden-Harris transition spokesperson Cameron French told CNN in a statement on Wednesday.
When President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his administration inherited the millions of followers of each account handed over from the Obama administration. It was the first Twitter transfer of power in US history, and at the time, the @POTUS accounts and @WhiteHouse each had more than 13 million followers.
Nearly four years later, the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts have 33.2 million and 26 million followers, respectively. Trump, a famously prolific tweeter, will retain control of his personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, which has 88.5 million followers on the platform.
"The Obama-Biden Administration built out social media accounts and followings that were handed over to the Trump Administration immediately and fully upon taking office. This wasn't about politics, it was about ensuring no disruption in the ability of the executive branch of government to directly communicate its policies to the country," French said in the statement.
He continued, "Especially in times of crisis, the American people deserve access to information in a variety of forms including social media." "Twitter has failed to articulate a clear reason for why they have chosen this abrupt reversal in policies, a decision that flies in the face of how other digital platforms are handling this transition," French said.
A spokesperson for Twitter, Nick Pacilio, told CNN in a statement on Tuesday that the multiple...
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One of the more ridiculous complaints I could imagine.....
So, are they claiming that half of Trump’s twitter followers were Barry’s followers?
What’s the problem? I’m sure the record number of voters that “elected” him will flock to his account in droves.
What “new” administration?
Do you think this denial is just for show?
Will this list be included as one data element to help identify the undesirables for reeducation?
Twit might be doing Dementia Joe a favor here. Save the doddering fool the embarrassment of having millions upon millions of Trump supporters dropping their WH accounts.
Dems don’t get embarrassed - that’s a GOP trait.
They may want to prosecute the pro-Trump tweeters.
Biden & his group belong in an institution for the criminally insane.
Trump’s vote WERE STOLEN...
NOW—BIDEN thinks those ‘followers’ are his also???
AMAZING
I’d like to see Trump tell all of his 88 MILLION followers on Twitter to switch to Parlor and ask them to cancel their Twitter accounts altogether. I would bet that millions would cancel Twitter if he asked.
“One of the more ridiculous complaints I could imagine.....”
Yes, but in light of Bimentia’s Rally turnouts, not to surprising, as it will probably carryover to twitter followers whom would have to go out of their way to re-up to follow that turd.
They obviously don’t understand that Twitter’s view is “everything tainted by Trump must be expunged!”
I would suspect those following the White House under the
Trump years, were generally favorable to him.
Emptying the rolls in a way protects them. It may be possible
to obtain the list now, so I could be wrong.
I’d love Biden to start at zero and have to wait several
months before it hit ten.
Because it would be so difficult for them to add twitter accounts by themselves
Dump facebook and twitter day. Day after inauguration. Let’s all do it at once.
Chinese bots and social score posters will help Biteme reach his first 10,000,000
Not content with stealing Trump’s votes, is he...
I understand why Twitter decreed he can’t. People would unfollow in such numbers and so fast, the site would tip over like a ship out of balance.
Wouldn’t doubt it.
I won’t be there.
The day Trump leaves office, I leave the following at the
White House.
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