Twitter has announced it will not transfer the millions of followers from Trump’s POTUS account to Biden when he takes over the US Presidency on January 20, 2021.
According to Twitter who allowed Trump to make use of the followers, it got from Obama’s then POTUS account, Biden’s POTUS account will start with zero followers when he becomes president.
Twitter plans to wipe out all followers from the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts once Biden is sworn in on January 20th, rather than transferring the accounts’ existing followers over to the new administration, according to Rob Flaherty, Biden’s digital director.
The accounts for @VP, @FLOTUS, @PressSec, @Cabinet, and @LaCasaBlanca will also have their followers wiped, Twitter said.