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| Trump Takes Over the @POTUS Account on Twitter | Trump Takes Over the @POTUS Account on Twitter |
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| In the final hours of the 44th presidency, as Barack and Michelle Obama prepared to leave the White House, their digital lives parted ways with the .gov addresses and official social media accounts where they have resided for the past eight years. | In the final hours of the 44th presidency, as Barack and Michelle Obama prepared to leave the White House, their digital lives parted ways with the .gov addresses and official social media accounts where they have resided for the past eight years. |
| At 12:01 p.m. Friday, the new president, Donald J. Trump, was officially in control of the @Potus account on Twitter, the site he used to spearhead the communications arm of his campaign, and has continued to use enthusiastically since his election. | At 12:01 p.m. Friday, the new president, Donald J. Trump, was officially in control of the @Potus account on Twitter, the site he used to spearhead the communications arm of his campaign, and has continued to use enthusiastically since his election. |
| NBC News has reported that Mr. Trump plans to continue to use his own account. | |
| As if to illustrate the point, Mr. Trump began tweeting again less than an hour after his speech, from his @RealDonaldTrump account. But the @Potus account did not remain dormant for long — shortly after 2 p.m., it sent its first tweet of the Trump era, a link to a Facebook transcript of the president’s inaugural address. | |
| Many on Twitter noted that when the @Potus account was unveiled with Mr. Trump’s picture, it bore as its cover photo a stock image that was taken at Mr. Obama’s first inauguration. The photo was quickly changed, to a zoomed-in stock photo of an enormous American flag. | Many on Twitter noted that when the @Potus account was unveiled with Mr. Trump’s picture, it bore as its cover photo a stock image that was taken at Mr. Obama’s first inauguration. The photo was quickly changed, to a zoomed-in stock photo of an enormous American flag. |
| A new website, Obama.org, emerged on Friday, with a video featuring Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama, in which the 44th president and the first lady announced their intentions going forward as private citizens. | A new website, Obama.org, emerged on Friday, with a video featuring Mr. Obama and Mrs. Obama, in which the 44th president and the first lady announced their intentions going forward as private citizens. |
| “First,” Mrs. Obama said, “we’re going to take a little break.” | “First,” Mrs. Obama said, “we’re going to take a little break.” |
| But afterward, Mr. Obama said, the couple would start work on several projects, most prominently the Obama Foundation, which will be based on the South Side of Chicago, and will be a “living, working center for citizenship” that will focus on unspecified projects in that city, as well as the rest of the country and all over the world. | But afterward, Mr. Obama said, the couple would start work on several projects, most prominently the Obama Foundation, which will be based on the South Side of Chicago, and will be a “living, working center for citizenship” that will focus on unspecified projects in that city, as well as the rest of the country and all over the world. |
| The Obamas then asked viewers for their input on the projects the new organization would undertake. | The Obamas then asked viewers for their input on the projects the new organization would undertake. |
| “As I’ve said many times before, true Democracy is a project that’s much bigger than any one of us,” Mr. Obama said. | “As I’ve said many times before, true Democracy is a project that’s much bigger than any one of us,” Mr. Obama said. |
| In recent days, the Obamas had announced their new Twitter handles, using their names, @MichelleObama and @BarackObama. | In recent days, the Obamas had announced their new Twitter handles, using their names, @MichelleObama and @BarackObama. |
| The WhiteHouse.gov website as it existed under Mr. Obama will be available at ObamaWhiteHouse.gov, while social media posts by the Obamas and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill, will be archived at new accounts. A full list of those accounts, as well as the new addresses the families will use going forward and the accounts that will be taken up by Donald J. Trump, his family, his advisers and his cabinet, can be found here. | The WhiteHouse.gov website as it existed under Mr. Obama will be available at ObamaWhiteHouse.gov, while social media posts by the Obamas and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his wife, Jill, will be archived at new accounts. A full list of those accounts, as well as the new addresses the families will use going forward and the accounts that will be taken up by Donald J. Trump, his family, his advisers and his cabinet, can be found here. |
| A favorite social media account of White House watchers for the past eight years, the administration’s Flickr archive, will remain online. That account, stuffed to the brim with images from the photographer Pete Souza, can be found at Flickr.com/ObamaWhiteHouse. | A favorite social media account of White House watchers for the past eight years, the administration’s Flickr archive, will remain online. That account, stuffed to the brim with images from the photographer Pete Souza, can be found at Flickr.com/ObamaWhiteHouse. |