Agency Reporter

Twitter has given US president-elect Joe Biden his new official presidential account, although he will start it with zero followers.

The Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.

The new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.

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In its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers. Mr. Biden’s own account has 24 million followers.

His team has also registered new accounts – @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff.

Donald Trump inherited the Potus account’s 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama – but that will not happen this time.

Mr Biden’s team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant “the administration will have to start from zero”.