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How the Obama administration plans to transition its social media

Fedscoop: All presidential transitions come with a lengthy to-do list, but the Obama administration’s list has a new addition: social media.

President Barack Obama was the first president to use @POTUS on Twitter, the first to use Facebook live in the Oval Office and the first to use a Snapchat filter. And that trail of digital information, including a Vimeo, Flickr and even a Myspace, has to go somewhere for people to continue to access it.

The White House committed Monday to preserving the outgoing administration's digital information, including social media, with the National Archives and Records Administration, as well as working to make sure the material is still accessible on its original platform and that the next administration can continue to use and develop the tools it created.

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