据美国国家公共电台（NPR）报道，拜登政府很快将接管白宫官方推特账户，但账户并不会自动转移粉丝。

目前美国总统官方账号@POTUS已有3320多万粉丝。而拜登在美国总统就职日担任总统后，账户粉丝数将会清零，也就是说，接管后的官方账号将从“零粉丝”开始涨粉。

图源：NPR 报道截图

How many followers does the U.S. president's official Twitter account have?

Right now it's over 33.2 million, but that number will drop to zero after President-elect Joe Biden takes over the official @POTUS account on Inauguration Day.

Twitter has confirmed that the institutional White House Twitter accounts will not "automatically retain their existing followers."

据《纽约时报》报道，当特朗普在2017年就职美国总统时，奥巴马政府管理的白宫等官方账号连带其已有粉丝，均悉数移交给特朗普政府。

图源：@WhiteHouse 推特账号截图

而这一次，推特方面将不会为新上任的拜登政府迁移这些官方账号的粉丝，而是会向关注了特朗普政府官方账号的用户们发送提醒，称这些账户将会被存档，并可选择关注拜登新政府的官方账号。

图源：@POTUS推特账号截图

When President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the official handles were taken over by the Trump White House with their followers intact, at the encouragement of the outgoing Obama administration.

This time, however, Twitter will not be transferring the followers when those handles shift to the new Biden administration. (@POTUS has more than 33 million followers; @WhiteHouse has more than 26 million.)

Instead, Twitter said that it would notify users who follow the Trump administration’s official accounts that those accounts will be archived, and that they can follow the Biden administration’s new iterations of those handles if they choose.

对此，拜登过渡团队的发言人卡梅伦-弗兰奇 (Cameron French) 周三在一份声明中向CNN表示，"推特不愿意将数百万粉丝从特朗普政府转移到拜登政府，把一个原本正常的例行交接程序打上政治化标签，这没有必要。"

"Twitter's reluctance to transfer millions of followers from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration unnecessarily politicizes what otherwise should be a routine transfer of communication from one administration to the next," Biden-Harris transition spokesperson Cameron French told CNN in a statement on Wednesday.

推特方面的发言人在给《纽约邮报》的一份声明中称，推特与2017年一样，正在积极与美国政府讨论，为政府间的推特账号移交提供支持，令即将上任的拜登政府接管白宫等官方推特账号。”

但在这份声明中，推特并未回应为何会清零粉丝一事。

In the statement provided to The New York Post by a Twitter spokesman, the company does not clarify why they opted to reset the incoming administration’s followers, only stating that, “As we did in 2017, Twitter is actively working with the US government to support the transition of Twitter accounts across administrations, so that the incoming Biden administration will have access to institutional White House Twitter accounts.”

综合来源：CNN New York Post New York Times NPR