Twitter blocks Trump, and Trump considering to set up his own social network
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The private account of the outgoing US president on Twitter has been banned indefinitely.
"After careful monitoring of the latest tweets, we decided to permanently block this account due to the risk of further incitement to violence," Twitter said.
It is about his private account (@RealDonaldTrump) watched by 88 million users, which he used to communicate with the world as the US president, although there are also official accounts on Twitter – the US president (@POTUS) and the White House (@ WhiteHouse).
The @POTUS account, however, is an account passed on to each other by successive presidents, so Trump chose to stay with the same account he used before winning the 2016 presidential election. He tweeted both private opinions on various topics (e.g. television programs) and announced important decisions regarding American domestic and foreign policy.
After Wednesday's (January 6) incidents on the Capitol, when a crowd of Trump supporters broke into the US parliament during a meeting of his combined houses, which led to the death of five people, Twitter has already temporarily blocked the account of the outgoing US president, who encouraged aggressive demonstrators with his posts. Back then, for 12 hours, Trump was simply unable to post new entries on the site. Twitter also threatened Trump with a permanent ban. Now his account is completely gone. The website also prevented the attempt to bypass this blockade.
Trump started tweeting from the official US president's account, @POTUS. There, he accused Twitter of plotting against him with the radical left, obstructing his contact with voters, and restricting freedom of speech. The website, however, removed these entries, but the official US President's account is working. On January 20, that is after the presidential inauguration, Joe Biden will take over.
So far, Trump has only stated that he is considering various scenarios and is in talks with various social networks about including his official account. He also said that he is considering creating his own social media platform. He announced that concrete details on this matter should be expected soon.
