(CNN) President-elect Joe Biden's transition team has pushed back against Twitter's decision to not allow the millions of followers of the White House Twitter accounts to be automatically retained when the accounts are handed over to the new administration. It was the first Twitter transfer of power in US history , and at the time, the @POTUS accounts and @WhiteHouse each had more than 13 million followers. Nearly four years later, the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts have 33.2 million and 26 million followers, respectively. Trump, a famously prolific tweeter, will retain control of his personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, which has 88.5 million followers on the platform. "In 2016, the Trump admin absorbed all of President Obama's Twitter followers on @POTUS and @WhiteHouse -- at Team 44's urging," Biden transition official Rob Flaherty tweeted on Tuesday.

Source: CNN December 23, 2020 02:37 UTC