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.
