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Donald Trump is again on Twitter, 22 months after he was ‘completely suspended’, right here is the way it occurred

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On November 19 (native time), Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter account of the previous President of the United States, Donald Trump. The choice was taken following a ballot run by Musk asking folks to resolve if Trump’s account ought to be reinstated or not. In a tweet, Musk wrote, “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” The Latin phrase on the finish of the tweet actually interprets to “the voice of the people is the voice of God”.

The folks have spoken.

Trump can be reinstated.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022
Netizens polled in favour of bringing again Trump on Twitter

On November 18 (native time), Elon Musk ran a ballot on Twitter asking folks to resolve if the previous US President’s account ought to be reinstated. The ballot acquired 1,50,85,458 (over 1.5 crores) votes in 24 hours. 51.8 per cent of individuals voted in favour of reinstating Trump’s account, whereas 48.2 per cent voted towards it.

Reinstate former President Trump

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

At one level, Musk identified that the ballot acquired round 1,000,000 votes per hour.

Trump ballot getting ~1M votes/hour!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

Furthermore, as per Musk, round 134 million folks considered the ballot.

134M folks have seen this ballot

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022
Trump urged followers to vote in ‘positivity’

Hours earlier than the ballot was over, Trump had printed a publish on Truth Social, a social media platform backed by Donald Trump, urging folks to vote on a Twitter ballot began by Musk in ‘positivity’. He mentioned, “Vote now with positivity but don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere. Truth Social is special!”

Trump requested his followers to vote. Why would he care if he wasn’t pondering of coming again? pic.twitter.com/ilJH9SQDzN

— James Clayton (@JamesClayton5) November 20, 2022
Trump just isn’t within the temper to get again on Twitter

While the ballot was getting an unprecedented response on Twitter, Trump was requested if he was planning to return to Twitter if his account bought reinstated throughout a QA session [4 hours 02 minutes onwards] with NTD News. Trump praised Elon Musk and mentioned, “He [Elon Musk] put up a poll, and I hear it is very overwhelming, very strong. But I have Truth Social, which is really fantastic. It is doing phenomenally well. The press may not talk about it, but it’s doing phenomenally well. I think engagement is much better than Twitter, and its taking care of voices that really wanted to be taken care of…”

The @actualDonaldTrump says he doesn’t see any cause for returning to @Twitter simply hours earlier than @elonmusk restores the previous President’s account. Trump was as an alternative touting his personal media platform Truth Social throughout @RJC Annual Meeting in Las Vegas https://t.co/cX3I56megy pic.twitter.com/Ttm7rXYfu5

— NTD News (@news_ntd) November 20, 2022

He added, “To get back on Twitter, I don’t see it because I don’t see any reason for it. They have a lot of problems on Twitter, you see what’s going on. It may make it. It may not make it. But the problems are incredible. The engagements are negative. You have a lot of bots, you have a lot of fake accounts, which I think they should get on. But Truth Social is taking place for a lot of people, and I do not see I am going back to Twitter.”

Trump’s suspension

On January 9, 2021, then-President of the United States, Donald Trump, was completely suspended from Twitter after the Capitol Hall violence of January 6, 2021. Twitter had mentioned, “After a close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

Other social media giants like Facebook and many others., additionally suspended Trump’s accounts. Soon after, Trump introduced his personal social media platform, and in February 2022, Truth Social was launched.