No matter who bring home the bacon the election on Nov. 8 , President Barack Obama will be go out the White House in January 2017 . For the first time in history , there ’s more to hand off than the Oval Office and the problems of a nation . There are now a host of digital prop that come with the White House , largely establish by President Obama and his faculty .
President Obama has been groundbreaking in price of how he uses the digital world to put across with the citizenry and it will be expected that whoever takes his problem does the same . He was the first president to havea presidential Twitter grip , to doa townspeople hallon YouTube , to use a Snapchat filter , and have alive discussion on Facebook . Not to mention the @WhiteHouse Twitter report and YouTube channel , a Flickr account , a Vimeo channel , and much more . So , what bump to President Obama ’s @POTUS Twitter account and other digital place when he leaves office ?
The White House address their digital transition policy ina situation at the White House blog , which is yet another digital property they ’ve cultivated . The smooth transition of digital power has three goals fit in to the post . First , all materials will be hand to the National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) , just like every president does with handwritten note , fax , emails , and other correspondence . The stuff passed to NARA will admit all of his tweets and snap ( yeah , those do n’t disappear forever ) in a form of format .
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Secondly , the materials are to be readily usable to the public " wherever potential . " That means making sure all digital communication , like tweet , are available on their native platform . Obama ’s @POTUS account will be transition to @POTUS44 . standardized transition will happen with the White House ’s Instagram , Medium , and Tumblr accounts moving from " /whitehouse " URLs to " /obamawhitehouse . " story of the First Lady and Vice President will move to accounts with the " 44 " added to the conclusion . Presumably , Joe Biden ’s Twitter Avatar will also transition to an ikon of a transmutable burning out on the White House lawn .
All posts from these account , in increase to being uncommitted at their new handles and address , will be made available as downloads for researchers , diary keeper , and any other interested political party .
The code for the " We The People " prayer website will also be give-up the ghost to the next chairman , giving him or her the power to continue that land site ’s mission , should they select to . Surely the next president will desire to acknowledge what people cogitate about officially making Friday part of the weekend , allowing the res publica of Canada to becomeits own commonwealth , and whyJoe Biden should become Guy Fieri ’s sidekick .
And last , official White House accounting , like @POTUS , will be wiped clean for the next president to take over . The tweets will be removed from the account , meaning you wo n’t be able to retweet something from Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump that was actually said by President Obama , as laughable as it might be to attribute Obama quotes to Trump . The account statement will maintain all of its current follower but will be managed by the staff of the incoming prexy .
" While much of the digital transition is unprecedented in the United States , the peaceable transition of power is not , " Obama ’s staff writes in the post . It ’s sure not the only unprecedented affair about this election , but at least there ’s a allegiance to this unprecedented act being peaceful .
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