Twitter Creates Official Second Gentleman Account for Kamala Harris' Husband Doug Emhoff

Twitter Creates Official Second Gentleman Account for Kamala Harris' Husband Doug Emhoff

- Other than the inauguration ceremony, another transition will also happen across several social media platforms shortly after JoeBiden and Kamala Harris are sworn-in to office

- Biden and his team will gain access to a long list of official government accounts across the major social media platforms

- The Biden administration will inherit a digital megaphone with the potential to make news and shape the public image of the US government

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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's inauguration ceremony on Wednesday, January 20, will not be the only transition of power from the Trump administration that will take place.

Twitter creates official Second Gentleman account for Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff
Vice President Kamala Harris alongside husband Doug Emhoff. Photo: Drew Angerer
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Another transition will also happen across several social media platforms shortly after the two are sworn-in office as the 46th president and vice president of the United States.

Biden and his team will gain access to a long list of official government accounts across the major social media platforms, including the @POTUS account on Twitter, CNN reported

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With the tap of a button, the Biden administration will inherit a digital megaphone with the potential to make news and shape the public image of the US government.

The transfer of these official accounts, which include not just those representing Biden and the White House but nearly every arm of government, has emerged as an important aspect of the broader transition of power.

In addition to the @POTUS account, which was created during the Obama administration, Twitter will transfer @WhiteHouse, @VP, @FLOTUS, and @PressSec to the new administration.

The microblogging platform also created a new account, @SecondGentleman, for Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff.

It marks only the second such transition between US presidential administrations for Twitter, which was launched in 2006.

But unlike the transition four years ago, the Biden administration will not inherit the tens of millions of followers on each account.

Instead, people on Twitter who previously followed official White House Twitter accounts or who currently follow "relevant" Biden or Harris Twitter accounts, will receive in-app alerts and other notifications about the archival process.

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They will also receive notifications on the option to follow the new accounts, the company said in a blog post.

While the Biden team may not inherit all of the Twitter followers, it won't be starting totally from scratch.

Biden's @Transition46 account on Twitter will become @WhiteHouse, the @PresElectBiden account will become @POTUS, @SenKamalaHarris will become @VP, @FLOTUSBiden will become @FLOTUS, and @PressSecPsaki will become @PressSec.

On the other hand, Snapchat and YouTube said the Biden administration would keep the current followers on the respective White House accounts.

Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram will transfer accounts on both platforms, such as the POTUS and FLOTUS Facebook pages and the White House Instagram account, to Biden's team.

These platforms will also duplicate the followers on Joe Biden's Facebook page and Instagram account to the official POTUS page and account.

Earlier, Briefly.co.za reported that President Joe Biden is facing articles of impeachment which were filed against him by a Republican congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

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The lawmaker who represents Northwest Georgia announced the news on Twitter on Thursday, January 21, a day after Biden's inauguration.

She said:

“I’ve just filed articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden, we will see how this goes."

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