How the @Potus handover from Obama to Trump works

Outgoing US leader Barack Obama has promised followers that tweets from his eight years in office will be preserved. Obama's White House team developed the strategy for the handover several months ago. Twitter then acted as a go-between for the Obama and Trump camps. When Obama took office in 2008, official Twitter accounts on this scale didn't yet exist. The new White House team will take over the official White House YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr accounts.

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