When you leave the White House, apparently you've gotta leave your Twitter followers at the door. Although Barack Obama has only had his Twitter handle @POTUS since 2015, he'll already be giving it up on January 20, 2017 when a new president is sworn in, and with that Twitter handle comes 11 million precious followers. According to a post on the White House blog, all of Obama's tweets as @POTUS will be transferred over to an account titled @POTUS44, and the tweets on @POTUS will be wiped clean.
The same transfer of Twitter followers will be happening for @WhiteHouse, @FLOTUS, @PressSec, and @VP. In the case of @FLOTUS, Michelle Obama's current handle, there's a chance that the account will be changing names to @FGOTUS (First Gentleman of the United States) if Hillary Clinton is elected president. Brace yourself for @FGOTUS sliding into your DM's, once Bill's got the password for that one.
The presidential election is on November 8, one week from today.