#JOE BIDEN POTUS TWITTER FREE#

Twitter said in a blog post on January 14, six days before Biden was inaugurated, that unlike in 2017 when it automatically shifted followers over to Trump, the platform would instead use an in-app alert to tell users about the new presidential profiles. Twitter is starting us at zero.but recommended the President of the United States tag other accounts to encourage growth- Rob Flaherty January 15, 2021

Snap is handing us is giving us all of the Subs FB is transferring followers over to POTUS followers that Donald Trump inherited from Barack Obama, then they have given us less than they gave Donald Trump, and that is a failure.' 'They are advantaging President Trump's first days of the administration over ours,' Rob Flaherty, White House digital strategy director, told Bloomberg in January. The decision angered members of the Biden administration's incoming digital team. In that context statistics suggest in the same period of time, Trump's following expanded by about two million users, 5.9 million fewer than Biden achieved.īy the end of Trump's presidency, the and Twitter accounts had a combined following of approximately 60 million, which did not carry over. When he took office in January 2017, Trump inherited about 13 million followers from Obama's account. Under new Twitter rules this year, Biden's social media profiles had started from zero as presidential accounts from the Trump era were archived. So did Trump's account gain 7.7 million more followers over the same month and does it suggest his version was more popular than Biden's? No. At this time in 2017, Trump's profile, inherited from Barack Obama, had about 15.6 million, according to a snapshot from the Internet Archive. Viral screengrab of a purported tweet by US President Biden on Rahul Gandhi’s recent visit to the United States was found to be fabricated.Roughly one month into his presidency, Joe Biden's Twitter account has far fewer followers than Donald Trump did this time in 2017.Īs of February 22, 2021, Biden's presidential account had amassed roughly 7.9 million followers. The handle also retweeted a post calling the viral screengrab fake, while giving “special mention” to and Read: Video Of Rahul Gandhi’s Interaction With Differently Abled Man Shared With False Claim Conclusion We did not come across any news reports indicating US President Biden had made any such remarks on Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the United States.įurthermore, the viral screengrab was tweeted by on with the caption, “Whattt….!!? 😱” Screengrab from the bio of this Twitter handle reads, “Threads, Memes, Cartoons, Satire.” Such archived versions can be seen here, here, here, here, here and here.Īlso Read: Did Virat Kohli Hail Rahul Gandhi In Instagram Story After Karnataka Polls? Here’s What We Found About Viral ScreenshotĪn analytical tool, Social Blade, confirmed that no tweets have been deleted by since by the time of publishing this article. None of the archived versions of the US President’s Twitter profile saved on May 31 featured any such tweet. A Twitter advanced search for the text seen in the screengrab from to Jdid not yield any such post by either. We scanned through the official Twitter account of the US President but did not spot any such tweet.

Newschecker received the screengrab on our WhatsApp tipline (+91-9999499044) multiple times requesting to be fact checked.Īlso Read: No, Pak PM Did Not Congratulate Karnataka For Electing Congress In Assembly Polls Fact Check/Verification Such posts can be seen here, here, here, here, here and here. Screengrab from tweet by Screengrab from tweet by Screengrab from tweet by Screengrab from Facebook post by Screengrab from Facebook post by user Niranjan Nalkur Screengrab from Facebook post by user Surajdev Singh Several Twitter and Facebook users shared the viral screengrab claiming to show Biden “welcomed” Rahul Gandhi to the States.

#JOE BIDEN POTUS TWITTER FREE#

But just because India has become free from open defecation under the leadership of Narendra Modi, it doesn’t mean that you can come to my country to sh*t in open whenever you want.” Newschecker found the viral tweet to be fabricated. The alleged tweet, dated May 31, 2023, by reads, “We welcome Rahul Gandhi to the USA. An alleged screengrab of a tweet showing US President Joe Biden’s jeering remarks on Rahul Gandhi’s recent visit to the States is being widely shared on social media platforms.

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