Musk says Trump's Twitter account to be reinstated after poll shows narrow support

[groundloop]

Source: Reuters

Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favor of reinstating the former U.S. President, who was banned from the social media service for inciting violence, in a poll organized by new owner Elon Musk.

Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstatement.

"The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated," Musk tweeted.

[snip]

He said he would stick with his new platform Truth Social, the app developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) startup, which he said had better user engagement than Twitter and was doing "phenomenally well".

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-twitter-poll-showing-narrow-majority-want-trump-reinstated-2022-11-20/

[gab13by13]

1. How many of the pro-Trump votes

cane from St. Petersburg?

[catrose]

28. My first thought

[electric_blue68]

43. How awake am *I*?! NOT Much bc my 1st Reaction was - FLA? 2nd was...

Well, of course! There's plenty of Trumpers everywhere in FLA. 👍

3rd - Oh. Oh, yeahhhh - Russia. Derp! 😄

[Native]

46. Various reports state that anywhere between 25 and 48% of Musk's followers are fake accounts.

and about 15% of all Twitter accounts are bots.

[Freethinker65]

2. My deactivated account disappears completely in about one week.

Good riddance.

[CentralMass]

21. Same here.

[bdamomma]

56. Me too

I don't need it.

[C Moon]

3. This is what it was all about.

[wnylib]

54. Bingo!

To give Trumpists a forum for his campaign.

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. What a joke. Sure Elon, real people want Trump back on Twitter lying about reality.

But, hey, you overpaid for the privilege of letter Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump to shit all over us.

[58Sunliner]

5. Supposedly Musk is re-issuing stock in twitter.

Timing is strange. I would imagine he wants RW money in twitter stock. Money-laundering.

[Blue Owl]

6. *IGNORE*

[Orrex]

7. How long after Trump tweets that he stole classified materials will he still not be indicted?

[Farmer-Rick]

40. You should do that as a poll on Twitter

That question would make a good Twitter poll.

It's as good as Musk's poll.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Rigged election!!! Stop the Reinstatment!

[Enter stage left]

9. So, Elon good buddy...if we can get 51.8% of twitter to advise you to FUCKING QUIT...

would you? Please!

Or are you about to prove this is politics, not good logical business practice!

[PortTack]

10. He's out to ruin twitter..the money means nothing to him. It's all borrowed from ppl who want it

Shut down. Can’t have the little ppl talking and communicating the truth…that will never do.

[RockRaven]

11. If TFG starts using Twitter again, it will be the final nail in the coffin of Truth Social...

And if TFG sticks with Truth Social, it will continually gnaw at him that he could be getting more attention if only he was over on Twitter.

[Farmer-Rick]

41. I really think Trump will do both

Until one or the other finally takes its last gasp.

[dflprincess]

12. I suppose I can go back to my goal of being blocked by Trump nt

[BlueIdaho]

13. Gosh - what a surprise...

You coulda knocked me over with a feather…

[Pobeka]

14. Step 1. Drive reasonable people off twitter. Step 2. Issue poll about TFG.

Definitely no bias in population of those that remain on twitter, right?


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I'm personally not clicking on any link to twitter, no ad revenue from me.

[republianmushroom]

15. continuing to fleece the flock just another fleecer

[BOSSHOG]

16. Yo Elon what's the result of the twitter

Electoral college vote?

[Murphyb849]

17. Vox Populi

Link to tweet

?t=nnm2Tg3EN6eKddDraey2vw&s=19

[BOSSHOG]

19. Hey Murph

I’m an old guy born in Philly a long time ago. My Mom was a Murphy. Had Murphy relatives in Maple Shade. Hadn’t been in Philly in this century. Married a Kansas Girl and now reside in the land of Oz (not Mehmet.)

[BidenRocks]

18. I'm 68 and a USMC vet

I thought we had laws against trying to overthrow our government.
They keep shitting on the oath I swore to in 1973.
Suicide is painless, as the song goes.
I am betrayed by my country!

[AZLD4Candidate]

25. "See the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired" - Gordon Lightfoot

"There I was in your air force, Uncle Sam, you have my brain
I saw myself as a sex mad sailor sailing on a sliver plane
I started out to do my duty, ended up just doing time
What is it about you, my mother of a country, that makes so many change their minds
You had me on your honor roll, for your dream I would die
Now I would not even cross the street to help you live a lie" - Harry Chapin from "Changes" about his time in the Air Force

[BidenRocks]

26. Thanks for that.

I also got spat at outside the Bob Hope USO on Katella, by Disneyland. 1974

[Farmer-Rick]

42. Yeah, they certainly welcomed home our Vietnam Vets

That was sarcasm.

Employers would Not hire you if they knew you were a former Vietnam Vet. That was just the free market at work we were told. So the Vets we're advised never to put it on a resume. Which made it difficult to find a job with this huge gap in your history.

The wonderful days of the draft.

[MedRxx]

45. VietVet FROM '68 here

So true brother, so true

[Grokenstein]

20. I can't wait

to send dim donnie a daily reminder that he's dog shit. (Assuming Twitter's still functioning after DogshitSocial shutters.)

[COL Mustard]

22. Just another reason I'm not on Twitter

It’s free, and worth what I paid.

[PatSeg]

33. "Free" is still too much!

[cstanleytech]

23. Just deactivated my account and no I am not joking.

[LiberalFighter]

24. He is desperate.

[Justice matters.]

27. Hair furhair wants to stay on Lie Social because for two reasons.

1) he gets no criticism by Liberals there, only praise from his deplorable magats;

2) he considers Twitter to be his platform "competitor" and there are plenty of Liberal mockery of his tweets there.

[Oneironaut]

29. lol As if he wasn't going to do it anyways?

[hay rick]

30. Another clever public relations triumph. Let that sink in.

[LymphocyteLover]

31. Totally bogus poll, no doubt loaded with bot votes

[Initech]

32. What could possibly go wrong?

[truthisfreedom]

34. Nice!

Now you two pukes can destroy Twitter simultaneously!

[Aussie105]

35. I wish EM and TFG all the best.

Talking to each other in an empty Twitter Universe.

[patphil]

36. This was Muskie's intent all along.

[AngryOldDem]

37. I have never rooted more for a company to FAIL than I have with Twitter.

I always saw it as a blight.

Now it’s a pestilence.

Trump will be back. He won’t be able to resist another platform to spew his bullshit.

[OverBurn]

38. Thanks a lot Eloon.

[Maeve]

39. Vox bots, more like

[MedRxx]

44. Shades of BREXIT: The People (and Bots) Have Spoken 51.8% vs 48.2% Revealing the Will of Dog!

‘The people have spoken,’ says site’s owner, having acknowledged during online poll that automated bots were voting too...

Shortly after taking over Twitter last month, the Tesla CEO had said no decisions would be taken on reinstatement until a newly announced “content moderation council” had met, later adding that no bans would be lifted until there was a “clear process for doing so”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/20/twitter-lifts-donald-trump-ban-after-elon-musks-poll]

Well, at least it is true that the process is clear: whatever a spoiled brat wants, a spoiled brat gets

[Native]

47. Excellent! Now we can all create fake Trump Twitter accounts!

[twodogsbarking]

48. We live in a silly world.

[TexasBushwhacker]

49. And Musk said "Vox populi, vox Dei."

I guess he's showing off his smarts with a Latin phrase. Maybe he should include the entire quote for historical reasons.

"An early reference to the expression is in a letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne in 798. The full quotation from Alcuin reads:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit."

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

*from Wikipedia

[MedRxx]

58. Thank You. I had NO idea that it was a term of opprobrium

Which it clearly, before being taken out of context, was.

I am shocked that I had no knowledge of the origin of the phrase, which have always taken as laudatory.

Did check elsewhere than wiki (which often IS vox populi) for conformation, and this was easily found.

https://www.historynet.com/what-is-the-history-of-vox-populi-vox-dei/]

[Kennah]

50. Choices shoulda been da and nyet

[Liberty Belle]

51. I wasn't polled and I have a TWitter account. Sounds bogus.

They should've emailed every Twitter user to invite them to participate if they were going to do a poll on this, thought Trump should stay banned no matter how many people want him back IMHO.

At the very least, Musk the Twit should have imposed a requirement that Trump could be kicked off again if he advocates violence. If he foments more violent acts, I hope victims will sue Musk.

[SouthernDem4ever]

52. Great, turmp's inssurection channel is back in full swing

Hopefully, he'll be twatting from prison.

[Grins]

53. And admit his "Truth Social" is (another!) Trump failure...?

This will be fun.

[orangecrush]

55. When I think of the damage to the country

Loser 45 caused with his tweets, it makes me hate Musk even more, if that's possible.

[bdamomma]

57. Elon Musk

I don't trust him at all, and he has no clue how run Twitter other than into the ground.