There are mixed reactions after the Twitter account of former United States President, Donald Trump, was reinstated on the social media platform on Saturday night.
Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, had on Saturday set up a poll to ask users on the platform whether the former president should be allowed back on the app or not.
Africa Today News, New York reports that over 15 million users participated in the poll with a narrow majority of 52 percent voting for the reinstatement of the former US president.
‘The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,’ Musk tweeted of the former US president’s account, which was banned last year after a mob of his supporters attacked the US Capitol.
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Africa Today News, New York recalls that Trump’s Twitter account was permanently suspended from the platform in January 2021, after he was accused of inciting violence through his tweets following the Capitol Hill riots and was termed a ‘risk.’
Twitter Incorporated under former owner, Jack Dorsey, had written in a statement, ‘After 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.’
Trump’s reinstatement on the social media platform is coming less than a week after he announced his plan to run for the US presidency in 2024.
Trump had on Tuesday night pulled the trigger on a third White House run setting the stage for a bruising Republican nomination battle after a poor midterm election showing by his hand-picked candidates weakened his grip on the party.
Trump officially set his campaign for president in 2024 in motion, filing papers with the Federal Election Commission as expected in which he declared himself a candidate for the presidency and established a new campaign committee.
Meanwhile, Trump is expected to grant a speech later in the evening or on Wednesday at his Florida private club, Mar-a-Lago.