Biden team starts @PresElectBiden while clashing with Twitter


Biden’s personal account, @JoeBiden, has about 24 million followers – tens of millions fewer than @realDonaldTrump, before Twitter permanently suspended the account last week after the president egged on supporters who broke into the US Capitol. — AFP

Joe Biden’s transition team flipped the switch on a new Twitter account for the president-elect on Thursday night, while clashing with the social media company over its decision to deny the incoming administration millions of existing White House followers.

Biden’s transition opened @PresElectBiden in order to start building a following for one of the official accounts the new president will inherit at noon on Jan 20: @POTUS. In a change in practice from 2017, when President Donald Trump entered office, Twitter Inc plans to reset both the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse official accounts to zero followers for Biden.

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