Enlarge / Probably not in President Obama’s Social Media Archive: this fake-selfie moment.
In one of the weirder political coincidences in recent memory, digital archives for President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump launched within hours of each other on Thursday.
The Obama Social Media Archive, launched officially by Obama’s administration and developed by ArchiveSocial, serves as the first-ever culling of an administration’s full online presence. It contains every post from every social media channel made by everyone within the Obama White House, from the president to the first lady and all the way down to various staffers who posted in one way or another on the White House’s behalf.
This fully searchable archive lets users type in all kinds of search terms, then refine results based on poster, social media platform, and other search criteria. (For example, a lot of White House staffers spoke about pizza.) While image-based social media (e.g. Instagram) is also included, search terms do not include terms for visual tags (meaning, if an image doesn’t have a descriptive caption, you’ll have to find certain images in more granular ways).
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Source: Ars Technica – Obama White House social media, Trump campaign receive expansive archives