According to Agence France-Presse, on the evening of June 165438+ 10/9 local time, elon musk, the new owner of American Twitter company, said that he would restore the Twitter account of former US President Donald Trump.
"The people have spoken and Trump will be restored." Musk wrote on Twitter.
The reporter then inquired that Trump's personal Twitter account had been restored, but he did not publish new content. His last tweet was posted on 202 1 1.8, announcing that he would not attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new president on 1.20 that year. The number of his fans dropped from 88 million when his account was blocked to 640,000 today.
Trump Twitter account. /Twitter screenshot
202 1 year1October 6, after the riots on Capitol Hill, Twitter announced that it would permanently ban Trump's account on June 54381October 8, for fear that he would "continue to incite riots". After nearly two years, Trump's attitude towards returning to his favorite social platform Twitter is: not interested.
Musk restored several banned accounts.
In June 5438+this year 10, Tesla CEO elon musk bought social media giant Twitter for $44 billion. Since then, the outside world has been discussing whether he will restore the Trump account.
According to Reuters, Musk held a simple vote on Twitter in June 165438+ 10/9. The question was whether to support the restoration of Trump's Twitter account. In the end, 5 1.8% of the participants supported the restoration of Trump account, while 48.2% opposed it. Musk said that 65,438+34 million Twitter users saw the vote. The final number of voters was150,000.
Musk has always expressed his opposition to Twitter's ban on Trump accounts. In May of this year, after Musk first agreed to acquire Twitter, he welcomed Trump's return. He also said that it should be extremely rare to permanently ban accounts, and the ban on Trump was "a mistake" and a "stupid" act.
In fact, since the acquisition of Twitter, Musk has been promoting the "transformation" of Twitter, resulting in the dismissal of a large number of employees, the panic withdrawal of advertisers, and the proliferation of fake accounts on Twitter.
Musk acquired Twitter in June 5438+10. /ICphoto
In addition, Musk is still adjusting the content supervision of Twitter. According to American media AXIOS, Musk announced on June 165438+ 10/9 that Twitter will no longer emphasize "hate" or "negative" content.
On the same day, he resumed some banned accounts, including the account of American comedian kathy griffin. Griffin was banned for imitating Musk's tone to canvass for the Democratic Party; The accounts of the Canadian podcast Jordan Peterson and the satirical website "Babylonian Bee" have also been restored, both of which were blocked because of their hate speech.
Us president Biden has expressed concern about musk's series of actions on Twitter. According to American media reports, people around Biden and Democratic strategists believe that Twitter under Musk may have more false information in the future.
Trump insisted on using his own platform.
Musk restored Trump's account, but Trump seems to have no intention of returning.
Twitter was once the most frequently used social media platform during Trump's presidency. During his four years in power from 20 17 to 202 1, Trump released many important policy messages through Twitter, and the American media called him the president of "Twitter governance".
Trump's enthusiasm for Twitter during his tenure also brought huge benefits to Twitter. However, at the end of Trump's term, because Trump kept publishing false news about fraud in the 2020 general election, Twitter began to intervene in Trump's account, from the initial warning tag to his tweet, to the short-term ban on the account, and finally to the permanent ban.
Data map: Donald Trump. /ICphoto
According to socialbakers, a website that tracks Trump's Twitter account, as of 202 1 1 8, Trump's Twitter account * * * has 88776 124 fans, and a total of 59558 tweets have been posted.
Trump expressed no interest in returning to Twitter after nearly two years. According to CNN, Trump 165438+ 10/0/9 was asked in an interview whether he would return to Twitter if his account was restored. He said "no reason".
Trump said that he "likes" Musk and he "likes Musk to buy Twitter", but he questioned the future of Twitter. He said that Twitter faces many problems, such as robot accounts and fake accounts.
In fact, as early as April this year, Trump said in an interview with NBC Financial Channel that although he liked Musk, he was "very disappointed" with his experience on Twitter, so he would not return to Twitter.
Trump said that he will continue to use his new social platform "real social". After other social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook banned Trump, his Trump Media and Technology Group independently developed the app.
The ABC report pointed out that although Trump insisted that he would not return to Twitter, he just announced his third presidential election, and it is not known whether he will return to Twitter with huge users in the future. After all, on Twitter, he once had more than 80 million fans, while on his "real social" platform, his fans were only 4.3 million.
Reporter | Xie Lian
Edit | Zhang Lei