Twitter has given US president-elect Joe Biden his new official presidential account, although he will start it with zero followers.
The new account created by Joe Biden, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January. However, The Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama. In its first six hours online the account gained nearly 400,000 followers. Mr. Biden’s personal account has 24 million followers. «Folks this will be the account for my official duties as President. At 12:01 PM on January 20th, it will become @POTUS. Until then, I’ll be using @JoeBiden,» the new account tweeted. Twitter plans to hand over the official handles to the Biden administration on January 20, but the current @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts will be archived, leaving the new administration to start with zero followers.
