Twitter reverses Trump ban; Trump refuses to return
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Donald Trump has not tweeted since Elon Musk reinstated his Twitter account on Saturday. In interviews, Trump has suggested he no longer needs Twitter, planning to promote his next presidential run on his own social network, Truth Social.
"I don't see any reason for it," Trump said via video-conference when a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting asked if he'd be logging back in to Twitter, according to Reuters. Trump claimed that Twitter's "got problems," Bloomberg reported, and he could get better user engagement on Truth Social. Many have noted that Trump is also bound to give Truth Social a six-hour exclusive on any post before he's allowed to post anywhere else.
Musk made the decision to reinstate Trump's account after launching a poll that logged more than 15 million votes-with close to 52 percent voting in favor of bringing back the former president. Nobody's sure how much of that vote was driven by bots, The Verge reported, but that didn't stop Musk, who is painfully aware of how bots could impact polls, from claiming the vote was driven by legitimate users.