[privong]

> If they do that, then the new POTUS account will start at 0 followers (unless they have a special agreement with Twitter).

They must have made some sort of arrangement. The article states:

The account will retain its more than 11 million followers, but start with no tweets on the timeline.

[cmdrfred]

They just do a password reset on a Twitter admin account and have the NSA forward them the email.