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Donald Trump's Twitter account banned (January 2021)
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Twitter was once Donald Trump's main tool for connecting with his followers.
But his account has been blocked for months - and according to Twitter it will remain in the foreseeable future.
Many of his fans are now trying detours, but encounter resistance from the group.
The online platform Twitter has blocked several user accounts in order to bypass the ban on the ex-US president.
"We will take action against accounts whose obvious intention is to distribute content associated with a blocked account," a spokesman for the US company told AFP on Thursday.
The accounts had therefore shared the content of a website recently published by Trump on Twitter.
The website "straight from the desk of Donald J Trump" (directly from Donald J Trump's desk) was published on Wednesday shortly before a decision by the online platform Facebook about the continuation of a Trump ban.
The independent supervisory body of Facebook had temporarily confirmed the blocking of Trump's user accounts on the online platform and the subsidiary service Instagram.
The move was "justified" after the violent storming of the Capitol on January 6th.
Trump had also blocked Twitter.
In March, an adviser to Trump announced that he would return to the online media with his own Internet platform "in two or three months".
Trump's platform will "completely redefine the game."
However, the finished product attracted a lot of ridicule, and quite a few felt reminded of the look of blogs from bygone Internet days.
But certain bonds on Twitter can also be seen.
The question was how Twitter and Facebook would react
After the presentation of the blog function, it quickly became clear that it would give Trump fans the opportunity to carry their comments, so to speak, through a back door to Twitter and Facebook.
Because you can share every short article with a few clicks as a quote and link on the online platforms.
It was initially unclear whether the services would allow this.
Twitter has now made this clear.
After being banned from online services, Trump has been reliant on sending comments by email in recent months.
That had worked rather moderately.
After all, the Twitter account with more than 80 million subscribers was by far his most important communication channel before that
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