Monday, 31 October 2016

How the White House will hand over social media accounts to Clinton or Trump

The White House just published an overview explaining its plans for a "digital transition" between the departing Obama administration and the incoming 45th president of the United States. It details how each White House social media account (and position-specific handles like @POTUS, @FLOTUS, and @VP) will be transferred to the victor of November 8th's presidential election. Since Obama is the first commander in chief to have a presence on most of these apps, there's not much in the way of precedent for figuring out how it's all supposed to work. So the White House developed some of its own.

For the big ones, the switchover will happen on inauguration day: January 20th. That's when either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will assume the...

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