Twitter bans new Donald Trump-based account
Yesterday Donald Trump – banned from Twitter for life – launched a rickety blog in an attempt at getting his de facto tweets out there publicly. Of course this didn’t help him much, because no one on Twitter is going to know when he’s posted something new to go look at.
Today a new Twitter account launched called @DJTdesk whose sole purpose was to post links to Trump’s “tweets” on his new blog. It wasn’t entirely clear whether this account was set up by Trump and his team, or if it was merely set up independently by a Trump fan. But either way, the account was in violation of the spirit of Twitter rules, because it was only there to steer people to Trump’s “tweets” on his blog – and he’s banned from tweeting.
After a number of activists petitioned Twitter to do something about the account, Twitter went ahead and banned it today. We know the ban is permanent because it now says “Account suspended” on the page, which by definition means a permanent ban. And so another Donald Trump-based Twitter account has fittingly bit the dust.
