How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
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#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?
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#3"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?
Someone else seems to have registered https://twitter.com/FGOTUS (but judging from the content of the tweets there, might be quite happy to turn it over to the administration in that case).
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#4Hmm, with all the renaming and so forth, so many links will rot. >.<
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#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 tweets? I don't understand how this will work.
Edit: The more I think about this the more confusing it sounds. Will the tweets be deleted? Will all the links break? This seems like a very messy way of handling the transition, unless I'm misunderstanding how it will work.
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#6Hmm, 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.
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#7> 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 think the White House can get someone at Twitter to copy anything they need over.
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#8> 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 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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#9> 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.
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#10Earlier 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?
> 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. You can check this by changing the "POTUS" string to anything else you like, and sending your browser to that modified URL:
https://twitter.com/POTUS44/status/786254141182074880
Presently, the above URL redirects to the POTUS one you posted, but that just goes to show that the numeric ID is the important identifier.