Jack Dorsey Explains Glitch That Caused Twitter Users to Automatically Follow @POTUS
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained a glitch that led some users to automatically follow the @POTUS account that was taken over by President Donald Trump Friday.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained a glitch that led some users to automatically follow the @POTUS account that was taken over by President Donald Trump Friday.
Dorsey said in a series of tweets (embedded below) that as part of the transition from former President Barack Obama to Trump, followers of @POTUS prior to Friday’s inauguration were slated to follow both @POTUS and @POTUS44, where the tweets from the Obama administration are archived.
However, more than 500,000 Twitter users who followed @POTUS44 after a certain time period were automatically set up to follow @POTUS due to the glitch.
Readers: Were any of you affected by this glitch?
All: we investigated what happened here, and we made some mistakes (which have been corrected).
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