Trump Says He'll Create Own Social Media Platform After Twitter Ban

NEW DELHI: Just hours after his personal Twitter account was permanently suspended, President Trump said he would be looking into building his own social media platform.

It is to be mentioned that, Twitter later deleted the tweet and also suspended his @TeamTrump campaign account shortly after it sent out a tweet with a "statement from President Trump" accusing Twitter of "banning free speech" and coordinating with "the Democrats and the Radical Left" to silence him.

The deleted tweet reads, "Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely..."

Earlier, the micro-blogging giant, Twitter Inc permanently banned Donald Trump's account due to the risk of further incitement of violence by his supporters.

The move to suspend Trump's account, which had more than 88 million followers, silences his primary megaphone days before the end of his term and follows years of debate about how social media companies should moderate the accounts of powerful global leaders.

Twitter had temporarily blocked Trump's account on Wednesday following the siege of Capitol Hill and warned that additional violations by the president's accounts would result in a permanent suspension.

Trump was required to delete three rule-breaking tweets before his account was unblocked. He returned to Twitter on Thursday with a video acknowledging that Biden would be the next.

Twitter said that Trump's tweet that he would not be attending Biden's inauguration was being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the Nov. 3 election that he lost was not legitimate.

Facebook Inc said earlier this week it was suspending his account through until at least the end of his presidential term. The Republican president is due to hand over to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20.

Twitter also permanently banned two Trump loyalists – former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney Sidney Powell – as part of a broader purge of accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.

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