Twitter Will Not Allow Archive of Trump’s Suspended Account on Platform
Written by SOURCE on April 9, 2021
Twitter will not archive tweets from former POTUS Donald Trump’s permanently suspended account.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), an independent government agency in charge of preserving and documenting historical records, is currently working on an official online archive of the ex-Apprentice host’s tweets during his time as POTUS, including the ones that ultimately resulted in the Jack Dorsey-fronted platform hitting him with a permanent suspension in early 2021.
However, as a statement included in Quint Forgey’s recent Politico report made clear, content from the @realDonaldTrump account “will not appear on Twitter” in standard or archival form.
“Given that we permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump, the content from the account will not appear on Twitter as it did previously or as archived administration accounts do currently, regardless of how NARA decides to display the data it has preserved,” a Twitter spokesperson told the publication. “Administration accounts that are archived on the service are accounts that were not in violation of the Twitter Rules.”
For now, archivists are now working toward the possibility of having Trump’s tweets available as a download via the official Trump Presidential Library site.
Complex has reached out to reps for Twitter and NARA for additional comment.
On Jan. 8 of this year, Twitter announced the permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account due to “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the fatal Capitol riot.
Among the tweets specifically highlighted by Twitter as contributing to the permanent suspension decision was one in which Trump said he would not be attending Biden’s inauguration, which was interpreted as a signal to “those potentially considering violent acts” that the site of the inauguration festivities would be a “safe target.”
