Twitter users voted to unblock banned accounts. This is how Donald Trump recovered his account.
San Francisco – Twitter owner Elon Musk has announced plans to reactivate accounts banned from the short message service in the coming week.
Previously, it had asked users to vote on whether there should be a “general amnesty” for banned accounts if they didn’t violate the law or spread spam messages.
The majority of the participating users expressed themselves in favor of the reactivation. “People have spoken. Amnesty starts next week,” Musk wrote in a tweet.
These surveys are not representative. It is unclear if and how many votes were cast by automated accounts. According to the latest information, the service has more than 230 million daily active users. By the time the poll closed Thursday night, more than 3.1 million votes had been received. More than 72% of them supported activating blocked accounts.
Trump’s Twitter account has been reactivated
Musk announced in late October that a council would form on how to handle controversial content before Twitter accounts could be reactivated. Last week, after a user survey, the tech billionaire had former US President Donald Trump’s account activated without a committee. Trump has been banned from Twitter since January 2021. On January 6, he expressed sympathy for his supporters who had stormed the US House of Parliament.
Musk bought Twitter for around $44 billion in late October. Since the takeover, the company has struggled with, among other things, the reluctance of large advertising clients. Advertising revenue has recently accounted for about 90% of revenue. dpa
