Elon Musk Welcomes Ye Back to Twitter - TIME

American instrumentalist Ye has returned to Twitter aft a two-week hiatus from the societal network, and caller proprietor Elon Musk welcomed him backmost connected the platform.

Posting from an iPhone connected Sunday, the creator formerly known arsenic Kanye West archetypal tested that helium was inactive unblocked—his relationship had been temporarily suspended and restored astatine the extremity of October, which Musk said was not his decision—before pursuing up with “Shalom : )”. Ye’s earlier suspension had been owed to an anti-Semitic tweet. The hep hop creator past period agreed to bargain societal media level Parler, embraced by conservatives arsenic an alternate to Twitter.

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Musk responded positively to Ye’s archetypal tweet, tweeting “Don’t termination what ye hate, Save what ye love.”

Twitter’s caller leader, who’s besides main enforcement serviceman of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, spent the play polling his followers connected the level whether to reconstruct the entree of Donald Trump, the erstwhile U.S. president who was permanently suspended pursuing the Jan. 6 breaching of the US capitol. Some 52% responded successful the affirmative and Trump is present wide to return—though he’s responded saying that he’ll instrumentality to his ain societal network, Truth Social.

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Musk’s latest tweet depicts Twitter arsenic a cause that Trump volition beryllium sorely tempted to instrumentality to. The billionaire Twitter owner’s courtship of the network’s arguable figures—beside himself—threatens to further alienate advertisers, who person been wary astir associating their brands with the work successful caller times.

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