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How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by dopeboy »

I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn't be any reason why not. The general consensus was that if the next administration is a Democratic one, our work had a chance of staying alive.

One thing not mentioned in the article - everything archived by NARA ends up going to Obama's official library. I'm curious if and how they're going to make that accessible to the public.

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by GuiA »

8ytecoder wrote: post #9
cryptoz wrote: post #5

> The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account. Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original…

I'd imagine they'd just change[1] the username of the current account and create a new one with @POTUS handle. [1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/14609

If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by privong »

GuiA wrote: post #12
8ytecoder wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd imagine they'd just change[1] the username of the current account and create a new one with @POTUS handle. [1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/14609

If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

> If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

They must have made some sort of arrangement. The article states:

The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline.

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by favorited »

GuiA wrote: post #12
8ytecoder wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd imagine they'd just change[1] the username of the current account and create a new one with @POTUS handle. [1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/14609

If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

I'd imagine they have a special agreement with Twitter anyway, at least to keep someone from programmatically grabbing @POTUS as soon as a script realized that @POTUS44 had been created.

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by mkaziz »

tomdell wrote: post #2

"the handle @POTUS will be made available to the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017... This will also be the case for other Twitter handles, including... @FLOTUS..." So if Hillary Clinton wins, they're planning on scrubbing the FLOTUS handle's tweets and giving the account to Bill Clinton without a name change?

First Lord of the US?

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by Natsu »

cryptoz wrote: post #5

> The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account. Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original…

If I understand correctly, Bill could end up with @FLOTUS?

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by jholman »

tomdell wrote: post #2

"the handle @POTUS will be made available to the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017... This will also be the case for other Twitter handles, including... @FLOTUS..." So if Hillary Clinton wins, they're planning on scrubbing the FLOTUS handle's tweets and giving the account to Bill Clinton without a name change?

First Lad of the US, of course.

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

#18

Post by toomuchtodo »

dopeboy wrote: post #11

I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn't be any reason why not. The gener…

What was the name of the internal staffing tool?

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by Beltiras »

Natsu wrote: post #16
cryptoz wrote: post #5

> The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account. Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original…

If I understand correctly, Bill could end up with @FLOTUS?

First Lad of the United States

Re: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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Post by komali2 »

privong wrote: post #10
cryptoz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, so, what will this link do? https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/786254141182074880 Will it go to a page that says deleted? Is that what "no tweets on the timeline" means? Will each tweet link redirect to the copy?

> Okay, so, what will this link do? > https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/786254141182074880 > Will it go to a page that says deleted? Is that what "no tweets on the timeline" means? Will each tweet link redirect to the copy? I think the only important part of the URL is the ID number at the end. So, no matter what the username is changed to, as long as you have that unique numeric ID, it will go to the correct place. Y…

Does twitter use the JSON api? AKA doesn't that url only have the username/status part for "discoverability" reasons, but realistically that tweet id at the end is the ACTUAL id for the tweet?
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