If you no longer want to subscribe to what @POTUS is tweeting — or alternatively you’ve only just decided to sign up to the President’s updates — then you might want to double-check whether or not you’re following the right Twitter account this weekend.
As the @POTUS handle belongs to the office of President, not an individual person, Twitter decided in advance to reset the tweet count during the transition between Obama and Trump, but to keep the followers intact.
This proved more complicated than anticipated. What’s more, Twitter was also trying to automatically add everyone who was already following @POTUS as a follower of the archived @POTUS44 account as well. The problem was, a lot of users found they were following the new President when they didn’t really want to.
