Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account

This isn’t a surprise, part of the financing deal for truth was that Donnie would always post on truth first before any other social media.

“I’m not done squeezing my own platform dry, yet.”

Trump's gonna HAVE to start posting again because of the optics. The most recent tweets on his profile are the tweets from right before he got banned - the Capitol insurrection tweets. His profile is now just a glowing reminder of the Capitol insurrection. Terrible look for Trump. He's gonna need to either start deleting, or start burying these with new tweets, because the current situation is not exactly positive for him.

I’m firmly in the camp of not wanting to hear anything more from Trump in my lifetime, but I do wonder if there is any ideological side to this from Musk.<p>It’s not clear at all that Trump coming back to Twitter is good for him, or for Republicans. Banning him I think took a lot of the bad side of the conservative culture out of the spotlight and bringing him back will make it front and center again. A consistent message I saw from Republicans was his policies aren’t bad but could he just stop Tweeting. It will get ugly but if Trump is able to rile DeSantis up into a public fight, it will probably be bad for discourse but good for Democrats.<p>The ideological piece would be the bad ideas and sunlight thing. Trump, as an important voice in the Republican Party should be visible so people can vote against him if they so choose.

“That is the talk of a loser who can’t win! His numbers have gone down. People are smart!”<p>No worries, here are infinite Trump tweets generated by a Markov model: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locserendipity.com&#x2F;Markov_Trump.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.locserendipity.com&#x2F;Markov_Trump.html</a>

Twitter bankruptcy imminent

One more thing, which may be controversial here on HN, but which I think is nonetheless correct, is that Musk has been effectively cornered by the previous Twitter board. He has no other choice but to count every penny and squeeze the maximum from the remaining employees. See the revenue vs loan payments estimates.<p>So the blame for all the drastic measures such as mass layoffs and such, should be equally shared by the ex-board if not solely.