Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been reinstated, after “Chief Twit” Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on Friday asking if the former president should be let back onto the platform.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk wrote on Saturday evening after the poll closed. Just under 52% of Twitter poll voters supported the reinstatement of Trump’s account.
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Trump’s account reinstatement is the latest in a series of controversial decisions made by the new Twitter owner to shakeup the platform. The former president’s last tweet was on January 8, 2021, when he was banned when Twitter said his tweets incited violence, after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Musk reported that roughly 1 million people were voting every hour on the poll. Shortly before the poll closed, the Twitter owner said 134 million people had seen the poll.
Perhaps as the poll demonstrated, Twitter users are divided over Trump’s Twitter renaissance.
Molly Jong-Fast wrote: “Elon way overpaid for this platform. He has decided that controversy (and the traffic from that controversy) will save his investment. That’s why he’s allowing trump back on the platform. Elon also loves trumps people.”
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