Twitter kept its word.
After permanently suspending the @realDonaldTrump account late Friday, Twitter also moved to suspend the @TeamTrump account. This followed a series of tweets quoting Donald Trump, and an altered image of the Twitter logo.
Approximately 45 minutes before the Trump campaign account was suspended, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed that if Donald Trump tried to tweet elsewhere those accounts would be removed as well.
“As we’ve said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules,” wrote the spokesperson.
When reached for comment, the spokesperson reiterated the same message. “We’ve permanently suspended the @TeamTrump account,” the spokesperson added.
Before the suspension.
Image: screenshot: @TeamTrump
In the now-removed tweets, Trump claimed that his team is looking at possibly “building out our own platform in the near future.”
Laying it on thick.
Image: Screenshot: @TeamTrump
Notably, the tweets that got @TeamTrump suspended were also shared by the @POTUS account earlier in the evening. Twitter removed those tweets from the @POTUS account, but didn’t suspend that account.
“For government accounts, such as @POTUS and @WhiteHouse, we will not suspend those accounts permanently but will take action to limit their use,” a company spokesperson explained.
Twitter also suspended Trump’s digital director Gary Coby, who renamed his account after the president.
The decision to permanently suspend the @realDonaldTrump account followed pro-Trump extremists seizing the U.S. Capitol earlier in the week, and Donald Trump’s seeming initial encouragement of that action via his Twitter account.