Biden Twitter account 'starts from zero' with no Trump followers - BBC News - 0 views
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Mr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant "the administration will have to start from zero".
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Mr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.At the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.
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Twitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.Twitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.
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