Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account

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Musk says he will restore Trump's Twitter account, suspended amid fears of violent incitement in days after Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection

Trump had more than 88 million followers before Twitter suspended him after Jan. 6, 2021, citing fears of violent incitement in the days after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in riots that left five dead and hundreds injured.

An account with Trump’s handle reappeared on the site Saturday, and was slowly re-accumulating followers. A former Twitter employee familiar with that process, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said banned accounts can take up to a full day to be restored to their prior state.Musk’s move reversed one of the most consequential decisions in Twitter’s history.

Still, it’s unclear if the former president will take him up on the offer. Trump addressed Musk’s poll and the subject of his account during video-link remarks to the Republican Jewish Coalition conference on Saturday in Las Vegas.

 

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Nobody cares...he's like disco

About time! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸

HURRAY GOOD DAY FOR DEMOCRACY !!!

A mistake

It took a person, Elonmusk, who is not from the United States to do the right thing in restoring, 'The Donald' back to Twitter 'under our freedom of Speech' Constitutional right! What a shame!

Musk treated Twitter like a broken toy He paid too much has no idea how it works Now he wants his money back.

Oh no a single person will be allowed on who cares. Block him if you don't like him.

DomestikTerror

I guess anything goes on Twitter now. No moral or ethical standards. Wonder how many advertisers will pass on Twitter. Yet, Christian cry about morals in the US, and support Trump? Wow

Figures, bring in the clownish loser as you circle the drain...lol

He was going to do it anyway, no matter what. His goal has always been to reconstruct his beloved Apartheid in the US. For that he needs the Orange Blob. That is the most simple way I can describe it.

it's Trump's court room Trump's Jan 6 Committee Hearing, he doesn't have to front up, it's weak the Law is Weak, Whimpie, LOL.

🌶🌶🌶🌶

Leftist tears 😢 ....🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡

That's what he needs to do To over cross all Media's Hostile entrepreneurs Who chock with throat a freedom!

No Checking.. all staff fired or resigned? Site over-run by Russian Bots having field day! This is the Vote that has been STOLEN. I hope boytcott all advertising and Musk forced to file for Chapter 11.

Madness.

elonmusk Elons Bots voted to give him the answer he needed as a last ditch pathetic attempt to save RIPtwtter - There are no depths Right Wing Fascist Nazi Autocratic Leaders will sink to in order to manipulate and control the rhetoric of Lies to fuel their masses 💩🧠🤪🤡🤪💣

Of course he is. Every other social media network devised by the Qult has tanked, so Musk bought the one which might survive until the end of the month. Musk is a card-carrying MAGAt, so perhaps this was the point all along, to give Trump his megaphone back.

As he should

tzDiscovery elonmusk may you please come to Tanzania and invest in internet service and the provision of mobile communication services. I will be a tech guy here ..and I can ask for approval from Telecommunications Regulation Authority

And all the triggered leftists can calm down. Trump's not interested in rejoining Twitter.

Easy. Just block them.

I’m disgusted but not surprised. Either way I’m not gonna lose a wink of sleep over it. People are making plans to dedicate their lives to blocking advertisers and pecking out paragraphs. Twitter seems to be people’s everything. Be sure to vote and maybe take a walk today.

Such a disgrace!

Why?

Trump won’t tweet.

Tell that to Democrat run Antifa

Elno is a petulant troll

They are complicit in trying to destroy our democracy. If such were a reality, I could imagine Trump and musk in hell. As they are breathing their last breath, I hope they are ashamed.

So what…. There are real problems in all of our lives and that Twitter account is not one of them. Spend your energies elsewhere.

Shame

amazon is a shameless company, took my 39.99 dollars as seller account fee and did not give me seller account, sitting on my money for one year and three months. Pay me damages now !!! Have some bloody shame JeffBezos I want help elonmusk FBI nytimes guardian CNN

NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Santa Claus rally in the stock market has been canceled due to inflation - the cost of feeding the reindeer is way too expensive to justify flying around the world. . . ho ho ho...

Wonderful ❣️

Trumps actual January 6th tweets.

It’s a very bullshit !!!

I think this is, quite literally, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Trumputin is trying to create a dictatorship in America.

Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump Fuck Trump

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Good.

It's a good thing because now we can track how many millions of Trump supporter are there and at the same time look at potential voters .It will give us another clear indication who are going to vote Trump in 2024. This is another great initiative by Elon Musk .

It won't do any good...

And here is the best solution to all the commotion. If you like him, follow him. If you don’t care, don’t follow. If you hate him, block him. ProblemSolved

Why would any self-respecting “liberal” ever again buy or lease a Tesla?

It was rigged!!!

I thought he was convicted of insurrection abd other things?

In doing this, Musk is basically ending any rational reason to suspend any account going forward.

Be more like bostonherald

That's been his intention all along.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The biggest loser is back!

How can we block topics permanently from our interest list? The weekly pre-checks do NOT work

That is funny ,A rich lie,A white lie hide in free speech

Good

Just stop you posted this an he ago please just stop

Don lemon and Whoopi will not be happy - they may drop twitter

Via a fake poll

'Democracy dies in Darkness'...

Unbelievable that Musk expent $44.3billions only to restore Trump’s account so he can used for his 2024 campaign to con millions of “lowest common denominator” people again 😤

elonmusk I heard Trump does not want to return back to Twitter... Sorry, you made an ass out of yourself! You tried to become the best MAGA convert, but Trump does not like competition...

Que the libs mental breakdown

Trump said he wouldn’t be back. elonmusk must have worked out quite an opportunity with the art of the deal man

Good. I've got some shit to dump on that fat guy's plate.

...and how are you feeling about this? 🤣🤣🤣

Free speech won

52:48

Is a 💩🧑🏻.

You guys should boycott and stop tweeting/writing fake news.

“Mr. Musk, who had asked Twitter users about whether to bring back the former president to the service, said, “The people have spoken.” Makes sense. Who’s next?

So predictable, so boring, so ridiculous, so childish. Just a spoiled child trying to draw attention.

ElonMusk, this is a completely irresponsible decision that you have now made! Then I expect that you will also take the consequences in the future! If Donald Trump incites new coup attempts that have deadly consequences for other people, the outpouring of violence! /1

Make america great again!

Will he be allowed to tweet from Prison?

Welcome back to Twitter Truth Social rejects 🤣🤣

Oh FFS

about damn time

Will at least somebody still believes in free speech.

That's not the story here. People are blocking Trump's account. BlockTrump Twitter ElonMusk

支持马斯克参选下一届美国领导人

I don't know what make Elon admire him. Yes Trump has the rights to speak as human. But not hatred speech

So much cope in these replies

Apparently Trump don't wanna

A clown pays 44bn to unblock the other clown.

Don’t forget to “vote”

Elon is a 🍆👱🏻‍♂️

And then came the fall of society.

Are you still open ?

and it's everything

Um. What happened to the committee he set up for this explicit purpose.

WOO HOO ELON MUSK THE LEADER OF FREE SPEECH!! FACTS OVER FEELINGS!!

Why are reporting a poll saying that 52% of people want tfg’s account restored? Whose poll? If I pull a poll out of my keister will you report on it? How do I figure I out when my WaPo sub expires?

Equal opportunity for traitors, I guess. Now we know where Musk stands.

wp is a joke

Don't look like it to me ..and I don't like the guy

jorgeramosnews So proud of Musk, Trump to end up the world crisis, God bless Trump, God Bless america

And Trump’s tweets proved he never incited violence. In fact it proved Trump called for calm civil obedience. Now progressives, since 2016, are always calling for violence. Pay your $8

But, there was a vote. Democracy?

Calling for peace is incitement?

Liberal tears are the best 😂😂😂😂

maggieNYT Even Washington Post admits there was no reason to suspend him. Fear of him doing something he had never done before is not a reason.

😂🤣😂🤣😂

Musk is clearly after some reward from the Republican Party. Maybe more favourable terms for his Tesla factories ? Who knows.

Goodbye Twitter. Ruined by a greedy man.

jorgeramosnews Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Trump is going to prison.

Trump is going to prison. Can he tweet from prison?

welcome back Great Leader!

The real vote: Biden, 81,282,916 votes. Trump, 74,223,369 votes. fight

I'm sure Trump will enjoy it for the week or so this app has left.

maggieNYT Will you add a mastodon account please. I have closed my Twitter account

Ugh

The world is full of things you people don't like, I suggest you get over it, and get over yourselves while you're at it. You sound like pathetic spoiled little children.

Was there ever any doubt he wouldn’t?

He seems less concerned with free speech and more interested in forcing to hear hateful rhetoric. There’s a reason people like Trump are deemed dangerous. A swear Elons next brilliant idea will be removing the block button.

I'll debate him and any followers of his that will read my replies. Let the games begin!

One rich White man supporting another one.

Meanwhile he blocks memes that make fun of him. These “free speech” bros are always the biggest snowflakes.

The People have Spoken. Democracy has survived another day, to the chagrin of those that would seek to see it die in darkness. Trump's account was restored. Whether Trump chooses to come back or not, is another story.

There goes the neighborhood!😂

Twitter must be doing worse than we thought. This is a Hail Mary

Excellent! An important victory in the war to preserve Free Speech!

Trump is unpatriotic narcissist treasonous coward. 5 cops died, 140 cops injured, his VP targeted, US Capitol trashed, surrounded by barbed wire fencing/National Guard troops for weeks after, Electoral College vote delayed, all because of his planned/violent Jan6thInsurrection.

🙄

Of course. He's losing $4 million per day in advertising. He's doing whatever he can to save his $44 billion investment.

What could go wrong? Just watch and see!

keep trying wp, 😂🤡

Please show us which tweet in particular that unsighted violence, cause I can’t seem to find it. I’ve looked. Help me please. All I can find are the 20 where he asked for no violence.

Block him! stand up against racist dictators.

Then musk best let everyone else banned from Twitter back!

*pre-fabricated, make believe threats of violent incitement.

Can elonmusk and Twitter be held legally accountable to what Trump and his likes do or write on Twitter? Can Twitter and elonmusk hide behind ree speech in any countries it operates? Are elonmusk and twitter liable?

Show me the tweets where he incited an insurrection…

It will be on El○n, when DJT calls for violence, he knows the risks but does not care.

Do people still have the button to have him blocked & report every time he tells a lie or threatens people. Maybe Jack Smith will have his investigation completed soon & Traitor Trump will be in prison with out a phone & that will keep him off of Twitter.

He was suspended before January 6. More bad reporting from the wapo.

maggieNYT 😡😡😡😡😡

Everyone knew this would happen so everything else people feared would happen to twitter is likely to happen as well. It was interesting while it lasted.

maggieNYT Florida retiree returns to Twitter. Meh

You mean the bots and Saudi voted

Hispanics love Donald Trump, glad he’s back 🇺🇸

This is a great day for Freedom of Speech - you Americans should be embracing it

Elon Musk is a piece of work. He will do anything to get a bump in Twitter traffic. He has no internal guidance system & isn’t any better than Trump.

One of his bosses. TrumptyDumpty

maggieNYT Trump_tweets_we_leave

I’m so tired of Trump and his cavalcade of grievances. Giving him another platform to spread his chaos is bad for the country.

elonmusk I don’t buy your ‘free speech’ angle. What is the real purpose? Another insurrection? More violence? More hate and division? Just remember…it’s on YOU now.

A gift to dems. Anytime trump is in the news- it hurts the GOP

Lies. He told everyone to follow the law. Stop lying, also the fbi colluded with the dnc to pursue bs Russia crap

Musk, a self-described “free speech absolutist,” says he's giving Trump back his account days after he launched his 2024 White House campaign, a pivotal move that could help the platform’s once loudest, bluntest force regain online attention.

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