Musk lifted bans on three other users Friday who had been suspended this year. Trump has been banned from Twitter since January 2021.
More than 2 million Twitter users on Friday responded within the first hour to CEO Elon Musk’s poll asking if he should reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account.
As of 9:25 p.m., with 22 hours left to respond, 57.9 percent had answered « Yes » to the prompt.
Trump has been suspended from Twitter since January 8, 2021, two days after his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The company released a statement explaining its reason for banning the former president after two particularly « inflammatory tweets, » writing that the messages could be « mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence. »
Musk publicly reissued three accounts earlier in the day that had recently been suspended. Comedian Kathy Griffin lost her account after impersonating Musk last week, while Jordan Peterson, a social media personality who was suspended in July, and The Babylon Bee, a satire news website that was suspended in March, were blocked for making transphobic tweets.
In his tweet announcing the reinstatements Friday, Musk wrote that the « Trump decision had not been made yet.
