Because @POTUS is an institutional account (not personal) they felt it only fair to transition accounts with followers intact, but 0 tweets.
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We kicked off that plan at 12p Eastern yesterday:http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/20/510784802/on-the-day-of-white-house-transitions-twitter-shifts-potus-to-donald-trump …
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Two issues were reported during the day which we spent the night confirming and have now corrected:
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We believe this affected about 560,000 people. This was a mistake, it wasn't right, we own it, and we apologize. No excuses.
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This also affected other official Administration accounts like
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We believe we've corrected all accounts to reflect your follow/unfollow intent. We're sorry for the mistakes made here, and thank you all.
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no you haven't fixed it, i had potus blocked after unfollowing and just had to unfollow, i think the number of affected users > 500k
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