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Twitter to hand over @POTUS account to Biden on Jan 20
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IANS | 21 Nov, 2020
Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that it will handover the
@POTUS (President of the United States) account to American
President-elect Joe Biden after he is inaugurated on January 20, 2021,
regardless of whether incumbent leader Donald Trump concedes before
that.
The POTUS US government account currently has more than
32.8 million followers. The current tweets posted during the Trump
administration will be archived, and the account will be reset to zero
tweets.
In a statement to The Hill news website, a Twitter
spokesperson confirmed on Friday that the tech giant is "actively
preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter
accounts on January 20th, 2021", which also includes @WHITEHOUSE, @VP,
@FLOTUS, and a number of other official accounts.
The process is being done in consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration, the spokesperson added.
The
micro-blogging site has also confirmed that Twitter staffers will soon
meet representatives from the Biden-Harris team to "review how the new
administration plans to use its government-related accounts".
Major
media outlets have projected Biden as the winner of the November 3
presidential election after he won more than the 270 electoral votes
needed to secure victory.
Trump, who claimed that the election
was a fraud, is yet to concede and was also mounting challenges in court
over allegations of vote count misconduct.
A federal law sets
what is called the "Safe Harbor" deadline, falling on December 8 this
year, the day by which states must submit the winner of the presidential
election if they are to be insulated from legal disputes.
Electoral College representatives will meet six days later, on December 14, to formally select the next US President.
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