The platform explained that it was working with the US government to support the archival and transition of Twitter accounts across administrations.
“As President-elect Biden is sworn in on 20 January 2021, Twitter will facilitate the transfer of institutional White House Twitter accounts, including: @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @VP, @FLOTUS, and @PressSec,” the post reads.
The official account of President-elect Biden will become the POTUS (President of the United States) account, the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition account will become the White House account. The same will become of the accounts of the Vice President, First Lady and Press Secretary.
The spouse of incoming Vice President Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, will assume a newly created account named @SecondGentleman.
Tweets of the outgoing administration of Donald Trump will be transferred to the National Archival and Records Administration and will remain publicly available under new handles. The current @POTUS account will become @POTUS45 and so on, just as former President Barack Obama’s official account is still up under @POTUS44.
As people can't attend the ceremony due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Twitter has promised to provide live coverage of the event through multiple news outlets and official inauguration feed.
The social platform will also keep in touch with law enforcement to protect the public from attempts to incite violence and spread misleading information.
