Musk made the move after holding a poll that asked Twitter users to click 'yes' or 'no' on whether Trump's account should be reinstated.
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Shortly afterward Trump's account, which had earlier appeared as suspended, reappeared on the platform complete with his former tweets, more than 59,000 of them. His followers were initially gone, but appeared to be restored by Sunday morning, when they topped 72 million. In response to the move, NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement that"any advertiser still funding Twitter should immediately pause all advertising. If Elon Musk continues to run Twitter like this, using garbage polls that do not represent the American people and the needs of our democracy, God help us all."advertising on Twitter since Musk's takeover, including General Mills, Eli Lilly, General Motors and Audi.
"I hear we're getting a big vote to also go back on Twitter. I don't see it because I don't see any reason for it," Trump said, Bloomberg reported."It may make it, it may not make it," he added, apparently referring to Twitter's recent internal upheavals. two days after his supporters stormed the Capitol, soon after the former president had exhorted them to"fight like hell.
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