The same will happen for and The Twitter accounts of White House staffers will also be handed over to NARA. Obama’s tweets will be moved and maintained where they will remain publically accessible indefinitely. The goal is to preserve the information while still keeping it in its original format and publicly available.įor instance, the Twitter handle will be wiped clean and will be handed over to the incoming president on inauguration day, along with its 11 million followers. That’s why the White House has laid out a detailed strategy for preserving Obama’s digital legacy as well as the papers, emails and handwritten notes created by his administration.Īccording to Schulman, much of the digital preservation effort will be managed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Kori Schulman, Deputy Chief Digital Officer for the White House, writes in a blog post that Obama, as well as the First Lady and Vice President Joe Biden, have produced nearly 30,000 tweets, thousands of hours of video footage, and more than 470,000 We the People petitions. He appeared on Zach Galifianakis’ digital mock talk show " Between Two Ferns" and was interviewed by YouTube stars after his last State of the Union address in January. 44 was the first to use Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Vimeo, MySpace and Instagram. There’s few people who would quibble with the idea that Barack Obama was the first “Social Media President.” Colin Daileda at Mashable points out that president No.
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