By Cameron Clarke

Twitter has apologised after more than half a million users were forced to follow Donald Trump when a technical glitch beset the handover of the presidential account.

When the official @POTUS account was handed from Barack Obama to the new president on Friday, its followers were transferred to a @POTUS44 account being archived for posterity.

But some users who had unfollowed @POTUS, or chosen to only follow @POTUS44, complained that they had been subscribed to Trump’s tweets without their say so, prompting – naturally – a Twitterstorm of invective directed at Twitter chief Jack Dorsey.

Customarily, Dorsey responded to the barrage Read full story ›

Source: The Drum