Ready for the next @POTUS? White House reveals digital transition plan

President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube, the first to use a filter on Snapchat. But what happens to the official presidential social media accounts when the next president takes office? The next president will take over what the Obama administration started, but with a clean slate. More than 27,000 @WhiteHouse tweets and 1,800 Instagram posts will be archived through the National Archives and Records Administration, and the usernames will be turned over to the new administration empty.