{"id":150601,"date":"2022-11-20T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-ends-trumps-twitter-ban"},"modified":"2022-11-20T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T20:28:13","slug":"elon-musk-ends-trumps-twitter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-ends-trumps-twitter-ban","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk ends Trump\u2019s Twitter ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-ends-trumps-twitter-ban2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account has been reinstated following a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/08\/trump-banned-from-twitter\/\">permanent ban<\/a> in January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, new Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a poll asking if Trump should be allowed back on the platform. Just over 15 million people voted, with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstating Trump on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 2022, when Twitter filed its last <a href=\"https:\/\/s22.q4cdn.com\/826641620\/files\/doc_financials\/2022\/q2\/Final_Q2'22_Earnings_Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quarterly earnings report<\/a> before going private, the platform has about 237.8 million monetizable daily active users. Yet when Musk\u2019s impromptu poll ended on Saturday with a small fraction of the user base taking part, Trump\u2019s account was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unbanned<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account has been reinstated following a permanent ban in January 2021. On Friday, new Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a poll asking if Trump should be allowed back on the platform. Just over 15 million people voted, with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstating Trump on Twitter. As of July [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}