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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 justavoice »

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?

only in an alternate universe. But guess what: Melania can just retweet Michelle tweets...

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

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Post by justavoice »

odonnellryan wrote: post #80
School-Cotton wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked Obama never sent and received classified information through his Twitter account, nor deleted anything from his Twitter account after learning it would likely be investigated.

Hillary never deleted anything after she learned of the investigation. Her lawyers were given specific instructions and they followed them.

Nope, she used a wipe cloth... And had her IT guy use bleach to clean it. Nothing to see here...

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

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Post by MrZongle2 »

hossbeast wrote: post #26

Facebook.com/ObamaWhiteHouse is a naming collision waiting to happen (president Michelle?) Go with Facebook.com/whitehouse44

Any kind of political dynasty -- whether it be Kennedys, Obamas or Bushes -- should give voters pause. I don't understand the infatuation with neo-royalty.

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

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Post by hossbeast »

MrZongle2 wrote: post #83
hossbeast wrote: post #26

Facebook.com/ObamaWhiteHouse is a naming collision waiting to happen (president Michelle?) Go with Facebook.com/whitehouse44

Any kind of political dynasty -- whether it be Kennedys, Obamas or Bushes -- should give voters pause. I don't understand the infatuation with neo-royalty.

Sure, what does that have to do with the technical mistake of failing to plan for naming collisions?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

favorited wrote: post #14
GuiA wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by skinnymuch »

rahkiin wrote: post #76

The page says it will archive Obama's snapchats. Now, I thought the #1 feature of SnapChat was that they are deleted afterwards. So how does that work? Did Obama screenshot every SnapChat he made?

I'm guessing you've never used Snapchat before? You can save your own Snaps before sending them out. So that's prob what has been happening.

Also Snapchat has a permanent Memories feature now

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