He reported 12 million visits in 12 hours, adding, "Exploding growth right now." Gab saw "record traffic" on Friday night and Saturday, according to its creator Andrew Torba, and had to add computer servers to handle it. In a quickly deleted tweet, the president himself on Friday spoke of creating his own platform "in the near future", without providing any detail.Ĭonservative platforms popular among Trump's fiercest supporters, like Parler and Gab, have drawn growing numbers of users. The question now is where Trump and his supporters will turn next.ĭonald Trump Jr, himself fearing exclusion from Twitter, has asked his followers to send him their email contacts - hardly the most reactive form of communications - so he can keep them abreast of news. Reddit, a news and discussion website that is normally fairly permissive, on Friday closed a forum popular with Trump fans, saying it was inciting hate. It was taking the rare measure, it said, "due to the risk of further incitement of violence".įacebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitch joined in suspending the president's accounts.
"Why," he went on, "should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?"Įvery one of the above messages was posted on Twitter, the social network that for years has been Trump's preferred means of communicating with the public - and sometimes even with other world leaders.īut on Friday, amid widespread fury after he encouraged the supporters who forced their way into the US Capitol in a bloody and chaotic melee, Twitter banned him permanently. They've worked to silence opposing voices for years."įor influential Republican senator Ted Cruz, the decisions by Twitter and some other social media were "absurd & profoundly dangerous". "Free speech is dead & controlled by leftist overlords," tweeted Donald Trump Jr, the president's older son.Īsked Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, "Who will be silenced next?"Īnd Mike Pompeo - posting not as secretary of state but on his personal account - tweeted: "Sadly, this isn't a new tactic of the Left. Twitter - a choice underscoring the platform's huge readership and the relative paucity of alternatives. Ironically, given the enormous influence of the platform, they have aired their grievances first of all on.
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NEW YORK: Friends, family and advisors to Donald Trump have been bitterly complaining that Twitter's ban of the president after his supporters stormed the US Capitol amounts to an assault on free speech by radical leftists. This photo from shows the Twitter account of President Donald Trump, indefinitely suspended on after his followers invaded the US Capitol.
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