Twitter, Facebook will transfer presidential accounts to Joe Biden on Inauguration Day

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Twitter will transit the @POTUS record to President-elect Joe Biden back he's testimony in on Inauguration Day, the congregation told Politico. Twitter will transit the record to Biden well-heeled if President Donald Trump hasn't conceded -- which he still hasn't done, though the ballot broadly genuineness self-named for Biden eldest this month.

"Twitter is boisterously pursuing to support the transition of White Kennel institutional Twitter finance on January 20th, 2021," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. "As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this schema is genuineness done in dampish consultation with the Nationwide Repository and Scroll Administration."

Other presidential accounts, including @whitehouse, @VP, and @FLOTUS, will be moved over as well, Politico reports. The existing content on all of the finance will be archived vanward the transit (here's Barack Obama's @POTUS archive, if you're curious), and the finance will be displace to slickness zero tweets.

Trump will continue to kingship his claimed account, @realDonaldTrump, postliminary Biden's inauguration, morally the record will lose the special protections it gets due to Trump's status as a apple sceptre -- meaning he will be subject to the aforementioned rules as the majority of the users on the platform.

On Saturday, Facebook told Reuters it would also transit the official POTUS record on its pulpit to the incoming administration. "In 2017, we formed with both the Obama Department and incoming Trump Department to manufacture sustained the transition of their Facebook and Instagram finance was seamless on January 20th, and we expect to do the aforementioned here," the congregation said.

Update November 21st 4:40PM ET: Adds advice that Facebook will transit its POTUS account.

Correction: We originally said in one tablet that Twitter hadn't replied to a request for comment, morally they had. We regret the error.

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