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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by Cthulhu_ on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:40AM (#25669146)
And they will, once he's out, but they have made a formal statement effectively stating Trump's account gets preferential treatment for being such a powerful person.

Of course, the cynical reason is that Trump's tweets are responsible for a significant percentage of Twitter's "engagement" metrics; I'm sure that internally they have figures that indicate how much revenue they generate from Trump alone.

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:02PM (#25674714)
It’s not just the engagement. It’s the publicity and brand awareness too. Every time the news wants to report on what trump said, they talk about and link to twitter.
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