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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 Figs »

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?

> FLOTUS

First Live-in-significant-other of the United States?

First Longtime-companion of the United States?

First Life-partner of the United States?

First Lover of the United States? :P

There's got to be a good gender neutral L word to insert here...

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

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Post by whateveracct »

ihsw wrote: post #30
foota wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

are you living in a fantasy world where polls don't matter

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ihsw wrote: post #30
foota wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by harryh »

cryptoz wrote: post #8
MichaelBurge wrote: post #7

Earlier 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?

https://twitter.com/potus/status/722572830592794624

@vallesmarineris is you right?

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

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Post by harryh »

rebootthesystem wrote: post #24
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…

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 i…

Do you have any evidence to support your worry? It seems to me that it's mostly unfounded. Nothing like what you describe has ever happened in the past.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

cryptoz wrote: post #8
MichaelBurge wrote: post #7

Earlier 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?

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

adamdecaf wrote: post #25

What's the plan for the 47th+ Presidents? - https://twitter.com/potus46 - https://twitter.com/potus47 - https://twitter.com/potus48 - https://twitter.com/potus49 - https://twitter.com/potus50 - ...

Twitter has yanked names on behalf of celebrities in the past.

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

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Post by imron »

harryh wrote: post #35
rebootthesystem wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 i…

Do you have any evidence to support your worry? It seems to me that it's mostly unfounded. Nothing like what you describe has ever happened in the past.

Well, there was that time when the outgoing administration removed the 'W' keys from many of the keyboards and did other damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/us/white-house-vandalized-...

Given the animosity of the Democrats towards Trump, if Trump wins, I would say there is a non-zero chance that some petty vandalism will also likely occur.

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

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Post by tedajax »

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?

@FGOTUS?
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