The White House press secretary account, @PressSec, will change hands next week, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer announced on Twitter today.

Former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced his resignation from the White House on Jan. 5 and moved on in mid-February to work on President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign. His successor, Jay Carney, has already assumed responsibility for regular press briefings — but hasn't yet taken over the keys to the Twitter account Gibbs used to go back and forth with reporters, make announcements and take questions from Twitter users.

Carney will take @PressSec for a spin Monday to take questions from Twitter, according to Pfeiffer's tweet. Prior to leaving, Gibbs inaugurated a practice of taking questions via Twitter and responding in a YouTube video.

"Some of you may wonder if what we've done with First Question ... if we'll be continuing that past me, will @PressSec continue past me," Gibbs said in response to the last question he took via Twitter on Jan. 5.

"Our Twitter feeds, the Twitter account of the press secretary and things like First Question will extend and continue well beyond my tenure here at the White House," he later added.

Gibbs stuck around on Twitter after announcing his resignation, continuing to use @PressSec through the State of the Union.

The handover will end a @PressSec drought of a few weeks, and will stop our handover watch at day twelve. Carney's first White House press briefing was on Feb. 16; the last real Gibbsian tweet looks to have been on Jan. 26.

"The delay was just a product of the transition period," Pfeiffer explained on Twitter today in response to a question by @Timmonsbrendan. "It is and will be a high priority for the WH."