<story><title>How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cryptoz</author><text>&amp;gt;  The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline. @POTUS44, a newly created handle maintained by NARA, will contain all of President Obama’s tweets and will be accessible to the public on Twitter as an archive of President Obama’s use of the account.&lt;p&gt;Wait, how are they planning on doing this? Will this copy retain the timestamps and other metadata of the original tweets? I don&amp;#x27;t understand how this will work.&lt;p&gt;Edit: The more I think about this the more confusing it sounds. Will the tweets be deleted? Will all the links break? This seems like a very messy way of handling the transition, unless I&amp;#x27;m misunderstanding how it will work.</text></comment>
<story><title>How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age</title><url>https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dopeboy</author><text>I used to work at the White House in the Presidential Personnel Office where I worked on an internal staffing tool to help fill political appointed positions across government. As we poured hours and contracting dollars into, we wondered aloud many times whether our work would go on into the next administration. The tool and the workflow behind it is pretty standard so there shouldn&amp;#x27;t be any reason why not. The general consensus was that if the next administration is a Democratic one, our work had a chance of staying alive.&lt;p&gt;One thing not mentioned in the article - everything archived by NARA ends up going to Obama&amp;#x27;s official library. I&amp;#x27;m curious if and how they&amp;#x27;re going to make that accessible to the public.</text></comment>