Donald Trump Says He Won't Return to Twitter: Why He's Sticking to the Truth

Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated former President Donald Trump's Twitter account on Saturday following a poll on the platform asking users if Trump's account should be restored.

Over 15 million people voted to reinstate Trump, 51.8% said yes and 48.2% said no.

"People have spoken. Trump will be reinstated," Musk tweeted shortly after the 24-hour Twitter poll on his account ended.

However, Trump does not seem eager to return to Twitter.

According to a report, during a video speech at a meeting of a Republican Jewish group in Las Vegas, Trump said, "I see no reason for this."< /p>

Trump has said he will stick with his Truth Social platform, owned by the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG). Trump has nearly 4.57 million followers on Truth Social. TMTG is in the process of merging with Digital World Acquisition Corp DWAC, although the pending SPAC deal has suffered various setbacks.

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The former president added that Truth Social has better user engagement than Twitter and is doing "phenomenaly", noting that Twitter's problems include bots and fake accounts .

Trump said Twitter's problems were "unbelievable" and praised Musk, saying he's always loved him.

Early last year, Trump's Twitter account was banned following the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.

Trump's Twitter account had over 88 million followers before his account was shut down. As of Sunday, after his account was reactivated, Trump had over 72 million Twitter followers.

Before his purchase of Twitter in May, Musk discussed overturning Trump's ban. However, he said such decisions would be made after review by a content moderation board and that no account reinstatement would occur until the panel met.

However, last week Musk announced that the Twitter bans of Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee had been revoked without any information on the process or the moderation board.

Following the results of Saturday's poll on restoring Trump's account, Musk tweeted: "Armies of robots and trolls may soon run out of steam. Some interesting lessons for cleaning up future surveys."

Musk has conducted similar polls on Twitter in the past. For example, he offered a survey on making a business decision last year. Then he asked his followers if he should sell Tesla stock. He sold over $1 billion worth of stock after the poll results.

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