Twitter also took action against individual tweets from the president before the election, but stopped short of punishing his account.
An outgoing employee in 2017 also briefly deactivated Trump’s personal account on his or her last day on the job.Before Trump, it was used by former President ObamaAfter Trump’s inauguration, Obama’s presidential tweets were archived and transferred over to a new handle, “@POTUS44.”
Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio said the Trump administration’s official handles would undergo a similar archiving process before being handed off to the incoming administration