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> Update: Jan. 26, 2017

> An earlier version of this story did not address the possibility that two-factor authentication could impede unauthorized access to Trump’s Twitter account.

> Update 2: Jan. 26, 2017

> As of 1:02 PM today, the email required to reset Trump’s Twitter account was changed to what appears to be a White House address.

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Also from the earlier story "People who followed Obama got Trump" story, it looks like Twitter merged or transferred the POTUS account Alias to Trump after the inauguration which means that all previous emails that had access to Trump's account likely to also have been transferred.

I honestly wonder if there would be a way to look at Obama's old account or other accounts in a similar situation, I have a strong suspicion that it would not be such a different story.

Obama's http://twitter.com/potus was renamed http://twitter.com/potus44. Trump's @potus is a new account.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-apologises-for-forcin...

It looks like Twitter did the switch.

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