Joe Biden , flanked by incoming US First Lady Jill Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2021The official presidential Twitter accounts have now passed from the Trump administration to the Biden administration.Twitter has said that the Biden administration will not inherit the millions of followers of the accounts associated with the Trump team.
Twitter told Insider that the accounts associated with the Trump administration are now publicly archived and pointed to adated last week detailing how the process will be handled. Some Twitter users, including some Insider reporters, received an alert from the app notifying that "There's a new @WhiteHouse."
President Joe Biden has officially taken over the @POTUS account, which was formerly @PresElectBiden, and has updated his bio to read "46th President of the United States, husband to @FLOTUS, proud dad & pop." He postedFirst Lady Jill Biden's account, formerly @FLOTUSBiden, has now become @FLOTUS. Vice President Kamala Harris's account has now become @VP — she posted her first tweet from the account on Wednesday around noon ET.
The official transfer of the presidential Twitter accounts comes after both President Biden and Vice President Harris both took the oath of office at the US Capitol on Wednesday. Trump was not in attendance.on January 8, two days after pro-Trump extremists stormed the US Capitol, resulting in the death of five people.
Politicsinsider POTUS Welcome Mr. President and Dr. Biden
POTUS It's safe to go back in the water.
POTUS Congratulations Mr. President!
POTUS Biden, cannot lock all of those Black Men in the cages of jails and prisons, and then try to talk to me about we, us, our, together or unity.
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