I don't understand the why of this transition. Why does it need to be moved to a new account? Why can't it all just stay on the same account?
How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the White House can get someone at Twitter to copy anything they need over.
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?
Same tweet id, just the username changed:
https://twitter.com/cryptoz/status/786254141182074880
Still goes to the same tweet.
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#23I don't understand the why of this transition. Why does it need to be moved to a new account? Why can't it all just stay on the same account?
Maybe so people can't claim the new president said something they didn't? When you change avatar and name, old tweets update their design.
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#24I 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…
I worry about polarization to such an extent that administration N might spend millions of dollars to develop tools useful for the running of the nation and, upon transition, these tools are negated to administration M almost purely on an ideological bases.
In other words, we are not supposed to be developing software and tools at the White House, or anywhere else, to support a particular political party but rather in support of our nation.
Not saying this is what you have done. I just have a sense that if Trump wins those not sympathetic with the right might cripple the infrastructure that was developed or let it rot and become useless. This isn't good for anyone.
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#25What's the plan for the 47th+ Presidents?
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#26Facebook.com/ObamaWhiteHouse is a naming collision waiting to happen (president Michelle?)
Go with Facebook.com/whitehouse44
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#27> 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?
> Bill could end up with @FLOTUS
No that will more than likely go to Melania.
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#28> 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?
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#29When twitter staff are handing over the @potus handle to Trump it will be a sombre moment for them all, that and their lay offs and stock price, can twitter really take another hit to their internal culture. I almost fill sorry for them, they tried their best to manipulate the election.
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#30Hmm, with all the renaming and so forth, so many links will rot. >.<
Seems like adopting ClintonWhiteHouse.gov etc (the alternative is not something I wish to ponder) from the get go would make more sense.
That implies Clinton has more than a snowball's chance in hell of winning, which she doesn't.