{"id":23561,"date":"2017-01-23T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23561"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:26:57","slug":"the-orderly-transition-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/the-orderly-transition-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orderly Transition of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure this has happened before, and most people are unaware, so I thought a quick note was in order.<\/p>\n<p>If you were previously following the President of the United States on Twitter, when it was Barack Obama, you followed @POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has created an account called @POTUS44, which is for President Obama.  You are now automatically following that handle.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter redesignated @POTUS to apply to President Trump, and left all of the President Obama followers on that account as well. So, you are now following President Trump at @POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>The same applies, in parallel, to the First Lady and the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, these folks have their own civilian twitter handles.  President Obama is simply using his old handle (and, by the way, he follows me, just sayin&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>So, you may or may not want to update your Twitter accounts accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure this has happened before, and most people are unaware, so I thought a quick note was in order. If you were previously following the President of the United States on Twitter, when it was Barack Obama, you followed @POTUS. Twitter has created an account called @POTUS44, which is for President Obama. You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/the-orderly-transition-of-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Orderly Transition of Twitter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1512,1513,1207,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-681","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}