None of us really knew what to expect when Donald J Trump was officially sworn in as President of the United States of America yesterday (January 20), but the fact that his inauguration seems to have broken Twitter completely is probably about right.

As the official inauguration ceremony got underway, tech wizzes behind the scenes were swapping the official @POTUS Twitter account from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, while also moving Obama's tweets as President over to archive account @POTUS44, and it seems the whole transition has left Twitter users with a bit of a headache.

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In the time since all this happened, it's emerged that those who had followed @POTUS for Obama and are now wanting to unfollow the account as it's in Trump's hands can't actually unfollow the account at all, leading to complaints that they are being "forced to follow" the new president:

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. even if you unfollowed @POTUS, @FLOTUS and @VP, DOUBLE CHECK THAT TWITTER HAS KEPT IT THAT WAY. It forced me to follow Trump last night. — feminist killjoy nicole (@NicoleFroio) January 21, 2017

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. It's mad that Twitter automatically made me follow @POTUS yesterday. What's up with that, @jack? It's a bit out of order, tbh. — Mike P Williams (@Mike_P_Williams) January 21, 2017

Not only that, but then the headaches got worse when some people who didn't even follow the account in the first place have reported seeing its tweets on their timeline.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. WTF?! Did Trump just force a bunch of us to follow his account?! I never followed @POTUS here & this morning I wasn't either but now I am?! pic.twitter.com/8FppKG2zNP — ǝuuɐıᗡ ɐpuı˥ (@Elle_Lo) January 21, 2017

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Seems like a lot of us got some kind of auto follow with @POTUS? Make sure to UNFOLLOW! He's pretty gross! — Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) January 21, 2017

It was bad enough that the Twitter Support team started looking into the matter, and the social network's co-founder Jack Dorsey has now finally worked out what the issue is, after having to field complaints from angry users all day.

"If you unfollowed it will unfollow," he tweeted. "A script is replaying all actions. Just taking a long time."

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. @red3blog if you unfollowed it will unfollow. A script is replaying all actions. Just taking a long time — jack (@jack) January 21, 2017

Which apparently means that a LOT of people have decided to unfollow Trump and it's overloaded the system, making the actual unfollowing really, really slow.

Of course, this doesn't actually explain why users who have never followed the @POTUS account are now seeing his tweets, so maybe Trump really is taking over the world...

Moving on from that thought, you can see the official list of all the social media platforms that you still can access Obama's administration on now he's no longer in the White House over on an official archive page, and if you're missing tweets from Obama himself then he's back on @BarackObama for you to go and follow that account instead.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Hi everybody! Back to the original handle. Is this thing still on? Michelle and I are off on a quick vacation, then we’ll get back to work. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 20, 2017

He's on holiday at the moment, so don't expect Obama to fill your timelines again any time soon, but it should at least keep some of the angry users at bay for a bit while the official Unfollowing of Trump as POTUS (as it shall hereafter and forevermore be known) takes place.

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