Posted on 01/15/2021 11:53:45 AM PST by DoodleBob
US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.
The Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.
The new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.
In its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers. Mr Biden's own account has 24 million followers.
His team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.
'Start from zero'
Donald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.
Mr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant "the administration will have to start from zero".
Twitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.
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Ignore him.
Do not follow him. Learn to use search engines to find what he is saying on YouTube, twitter Facebook. Treat him exactly with the condescension and contempt he treats us.
He won’t have a problem ramping it up bigtime, based on his rallies and his crowed press events. He’ll have one, Dr. Jill soon, so she can keep and eye on him.
With all those voters and the age group that they are, it won’t be more than a couple days before he surpasses Trump’s 80 Million followers.
I uninstalled Twitter. Too much toxicity and stupidity. Waste of my time.
Ol’ Joe won’t be responding, anyway.
They’ve given him an old disabled Blackberry to play around with, while someone who knows what year it is types the “official” replies.
Same here. Not worth it.
Tagline most appropriate here...
Biden's tweets are treacly pabulum, written by interns and approved by marketing advisor dweebs.
I would love to read the unedited white noise that would emanate from the addled mind of Joe Biden's brain in its slow death throes.
And we are to believe it will actually be Biden doing the tweeting?
/FistBump
Exactly.
“His team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden”
Twitter will have a million bots following him by the end of the first day.
What’s the problem?
Dopey Joe can easily create several trillion followers by sunset.
DRFLOTUS?
And it’ll go down from there.
i may follow so I can report, mute, and block. Hopefully I’ll get banned.
How is Biden ever going to get through an Inauguration speech, let alone a State of the Union Speech? Enquiring minds want to know. Pre-recorded messages? I wonder if he’ll even bother to show up to The Capitol Building to give a SOTU speech. Joe will actually be sleeping when his pre-recorded speech is aired.
I was THIS CLOSE to leaving Facebook for Parler...I was all set up, ready to go, then.....
Bastards.
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