What will happen to Barack Obama's POTUS Twitter account after Trump gets sworn in?.
Donald Trump will inherit the 13.5 million followers that Obama has amassed over eight years.
Donald Trump has made Twitter his own and frequently uses the platform to voice his opinions.
And he's about to get a whole new load of followers when he gets sworn in as the 45th president on January 20.
Trump will inherit the POTUS account - and its 13.5 million followers - from the outgoing president Obama. That will combine with the TV star's existing 20.1 million followers on his realDonaldTrump account.
The incoming president has indicated that he will also keep running his personal account.
"I'd rather just let that build up and just keep it realDonaldTrump," he told the Sunday Times.
Trump says that when all his Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts are combined he has a 46 million followers.
"The tweeting, I thought I'd do less of it, but I'm covered so dishonestly by the press, so dishonestly, that I can put out Twitter - and it's not 140, it's now 280 - I can go bing bing bing . . . and they put it on and as soon as I tweet it out," Trump told the Times.
Meanwhile, all of Obama's 346 tweets from POTUS will be archived by the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the new handle of POTUS44.
A similar fate will befall all the other White House Twitter accounts, such as Michelle Obama's FLOTUS and Joe Biden's VP. The same will also be true for Obama's Instagram and Facebook accounts.
Thousands of photos and hours of video clips of the current president will also be archived and, eventually, made available for people to download.
"Over the past eight years, the President, Vice President, First Lady, and the White House have used social media and technology to engage with people around the country and the world on the most important issues of our time," explained the White House's deputy chief digital officer, Kori Schulman, in a statement.
"This digital infrastructure is an asset not just for the next president but for all future presidents to build off of.
"From tweets to snaps, all of the material we've published online will be preserved with NARA just as previous administrations have done with records ranging from handwritten notes to faxes to emails."
