When contacted by ABC News about D'Almonte's experience, Twitter provided the link to the social media site's " Inactive Account Policy," which allows Twitter to reclaim dormant and rarely used accounts. "I probably should have worked harder to hold on to it but I just didn't," D'Alimonte said with a laugh. He has not tried to re-register the handle since his initial attempt in 2011. "I just thought okay, whatever, and kind of never thought about it again until today."
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"For whatever reason, when I tried to create the new account using a different email address, it said that I couldn't take D'Almonte said. Lebron James Stats Per Presidencies (2003-Current) George W. Technically, Trump’s POTUS Twitter account is new the original account, established by Obama after he took office in 2009, was changed to an archive account with the handle POTUS44. It turns out D'Alimonte was correct, with President Obama himself taking over the handle and putting it to use on Monday.īut when D'Almonte went to re-register the handle with a different e-mail address – almost immediately after he changed his original handle – he was blocked from doing so by Twitter. "Because I was looking for jobs at the time … I thought it was probably time to choose a handle that better reflected me and not the President of the United States, which I definitely am not."Īfter initially changing the handle to his own name in 2011, D'Almonte decided he should not entirely let go of the handle on the off-chance that someone might be interested in claiming it down the road. 'The POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him,' The White Houses Alex Wall explained.
His BarackObama account on Twitter, run by the staff of his Organizing for Action group, and the.
"I had the handle until 2011 when I moved to the U.S.," D’Alimonte, a Canadian citizen who currently lives in Toronto but spent several years living in California, told ABC News. Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account.
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