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'We tend to think of social media as ephemeral or transitory - we throw something up, and three or four hours later we've forgotten all about it,' Hermida said. President Obama was the first 'social media president.' ()Īlfred Hermida, a University of British Columbia professor of journalism who studies social media, praised the White House for making a smart decision and archiving the content. 'From Twitter bots and art projects to printed books and simple query tools, we're open to it all,' the blog post said.

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The White House says it also plans to make the complete collection of the Obama administration's social media content available to the public and is taking proposals for creative ways to archive and present it. The same principle will be applied to all social media accounts for the president, vice-president and president's wife. 'The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline,' the blog post said.īut the records of Obama's social media presence will be deposited with the National Archives and Records 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,' the White House added. Staff from the current administration will wipe clean all of Obama's content from its social media accounts, according to a blog post, so that Trump and his White House will have a clean slate.

The White House has a unique solution to manage the first social media handover from the 'first social media president' when incoming president Donald Trump takes over the keys on Jan. 20.

Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.- was the first president to go live on Facebook's video streaming service, to answer questions on YouTube and to debut an official story on Snapchat for the state of the union.īut what do you do with a president's social media accounts when the leadership changes?

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