Free Speech Reigns, Twitter to Reinstate 62,000 Banned Accounts

Let free speech reign supreme.

Elon Musk is making good on his promise to restore several banned accounts to Twitter.

In fact, roughly 62,000 Twitter accounts are about to be restored according to a new report.

Accounts with more than 10,000 followers will be prioritized first according to the report by Platformer.

This comes after Musk put out a poll asking if Twitter should adopt a “general amnesty” policy in regards to accounts suspended that hadn’t actually broken the law.

72% of respondents agreed with that policy.

BREAKING: Twitter to Reinstate 62,000 Suspended Accountshttps://t.co/PH6zJW2OsY

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 29, 2022

Trending Politics News reported:

According to a new report, Twitter is gearing up to reinstate 62,000 banned Twitter accounts. The news comes after Twitter owner Elon Musk announced last week that he would be reinstating practically all banned accounts.

Casey Newton with ‘Platformer,’ reported that Twitter will reinstate 62,000 accounts, starting with accounts that have more than 10,000 followers.

Twitter has begun the process of unsuspending accounts.

Starting off by reinstating 62,000 accounts that were permanently suspended. pic.twitter.com/pmschLOnrQ

— Pop Base (@PopBase) November 29, 2022

BREAKING: Twitter has begun the process of reinstating roughly 62,000 accounts with more than 10,000 followers, Platformer has learned, including one account that has over 5 million followers, and 75 accounts with over 1 million followershttps://t.co/5aE29N2OgF

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 29, 2022

Platformer originally broke the story:

In fact, since Musk’s poll, Twitter has begun the process of reinstating roughly 62,000 accounts with more than 10,000 followers, Platformer has learned, including one account that has over 5 million followers, and 75 accounts with over 1 million followers. (The identities of the accounts could not be learned before press time.) Internally, employees have referred to this event as “the Big Bang.”

The project could cause more instability at Twitter at a time when the company is hemorrhaging engineering talent, according to current employees. Each reinstatement requires Twitter to rebuild a social graph, activating data on who the account follows and who follows the account. For large accounts like Trump’s, with 88 million followers, that’s millions of lists that Twitter has to update and maintain.

The move also comes the same week that Musk plans to relaunch Twitter Blue, allowing anyone to buy a verified badge for $8 a month. An internal document about the launch, designed for employees in sales, says that impersonations have been “extremely rare,” despite all evidence to the contrary.

It’s about time…

Twitter is reinstating 62,000 accounts which were permanently suspended – Platformer

— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) November 29, 2022

BREAKING: Twitter is finally mass reinstating many wrongly banned conservatives. That is a MASSIVE win for free speech! 🇺🇸

— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) November 29, 2022

BREAKING (Platformer News) — Twitter has begun process to reinstate some 62,000 suspended accounts with 10k followers or more, including one account with over 5 million followers, and 75 accounts with over 1 million followers.

— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 29, 2022

Twitter is about to reinstate ~62,000 accounts that were suspended, each with more than 10,000 followers – Platformer

— Evan (@StockMKTNewz) November 29, 2022

Elon Musk's new version of Twitter has restored banned conservative accounts and is allowing them to grow their followers again. https://t.co/FqpZeK6Xu5 pic.twitter.com/ZmhG15dyGL

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) November 28, 2022