As soon as President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President, he got a new Twitter handle: @POTUS. Meanwhile, Barack Obama's presidential tweets and followers followed him over to @POTUS44.

It was a highly choreographed social media transition. The idea was that the people who had been following @Potus would now find themselves following both it, and the new @Potus44 account.

But later in the day, Twitter users started complaining that for some reason, they had found themselves following @POTUS and seeing President Trump&039;s tweets in their feeds — even if they said they&039;d unfollowed the account purposefully before the hand off, or had never followed it at all.

It wasn&039;t immediately clear why people were seeing Trump&039;s tweets — but many of them weren&039;t happy about it.

The apparent glitch also seemed to extend to the Vice President&039;s and First Lady&039;s Twitter accounts.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was telling users that the company was looking into the issue and that feeds would eventually catch up.

Twitter&039;s support team also said they were trying to get to the bottom of the issue.

BuzzFeed News has reached out to Twitter for comment.

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