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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 bitwize »

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?

Bill would be styled "First Gentleman", so FGOTUS?

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

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Post by quantumpotato_ »

Hi I want to point out that a while back "Barack Obama" created a github account.. press releases went out "Obama learns to code" ... but then the github account went down and was replaced by a similarly named one like presidentobama_bot or something like that. Sorry I don't remember the exact string but it was odd.

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Post by R_haterade »

bennettfeely wrote: post #43

Everyone here is talking about what is going to happen if Hillary is elected. Is @realDonaldTrump really going to give up tweeting from his account if elected? I'd be surprised.

One for official business, one for bringing the bantz and keeping the feud with Rosie going.

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

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Post by colejoh »

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 - ...

That's assuming Twitter will be around for 47th+ presidents.

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Post by mirimir »

imron wrote: post #38
harryh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe the Ws were just mementos. I wonder whether any of them have shown up on eBay.

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

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Post by sigmar »

ihsw wrote: post #27
Natsu wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oh boy, we've got another poll-truther in here

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

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Post by ihsw »

whateveracct wrote: post #32
ihsw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Are you living in a fantasy world where:

* polls are over-sampled with pro-Clinton Democrats so badly that they aren't relevant

* Clinton's popularity is so low that she can't fill the venues she campaigns at yet Trump regularly fills them to max capacity (and then some)

* she makes minimal to no public appearances, instead relying on weak public figures (has-been film celebrities, entertainers) to campaign on her behalf

* both current and past DNC heads have been disgraced as shills for Hillary, absolutely destroying her popularity among Sanders' Democrats and independents

* scandals from the email leaks never stop going away, in fact they're getting worse

* evidence of unconscionable pay-for-play continues to mount so much that they cannot be swept under the rug

* the FBI investigation into her criminally negligent national security practices has been re-opened, further destroying her popularity among independents and giving an unrecoverable haircut to her loyalists

* Trump has to make absolutely zero effort to retain Republican voters, nullifying all risk that they will cross the floor to the Clinton camp

Because this is fantasy world is actually the reality you're willfully ignoring.

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

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Post by heartbreak »

imron wrote: post #38
harryh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You should watch the TV show The West Wing.

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

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Post by cfqycwz »

sigmar wrote: post #47
ihsw wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Bill could end up with @FLOTUS No that will more than likely go to Melania.

Oh boy, we've got another poll-truther in here

I mean right now 538 has the odds at one in four which is fairly sizable
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