Musk Allows Donald Trump Back On Twitter After Favorable Poll | News

In the 24 hours that the poll ran, just over 15 million Twitter users voted. Of them, 51.8 percent voted in favor, while 48.2 percent prefer Trump to stay away from Twitter. “The people have spoken. Trump is reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk wrote on Twitter, using a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” Since his acquisition, Musk has already restored several controversial user accounts.

Minutes after Musk’s message, Trump’s account was visible again. The last message dates from January 8, 2021. The counter of Trump’s followers seems to have been reset, but in the night from Saturday to Sunday around 3 a.m. Belgian time, more than 1.1 million followers had already registered.

Earlier this week, Republican Trump tried to have his permanent suspension on Twitter overturned via an appeal, but indicated on Saturday that he may not want to return to Twitter. “Twitter has a lot of problems,” he said during a video message to a rally of the conservative group Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas. He prefers to stick to his Twitter copy of Truth Social, said the former US president, who recently confirmed his participation in the 2024 presidential election. Trump was banned from social media after his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Twitter said last year it removed Trump from the platform “because of the risk of further incitement to violence” after his supporters stormed the US parliament. They tried to prevent the results of the presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden, from being ratified. In May this year, a judge in San Francisco rejected his lawyers’ claim that the ban violated free speech.

Trump had more than eighty million followers on Twitter. On his Twitter copy Truth Social there are only a few million and that platform is also struggling with financial problems.

Meanwhile, the crisis at Twitter seems to have reached a new height. The company’s offices will remain closed for an unknown reason. Many employees would like to leave because Musk wants them to sign a promise that they have to work hard. At the same time, the platform suffers from stability problems, but there would be insufficient staff to deal with bugs and other problems.