{"id":2201,"date":"2021-01-11T11:03:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333612"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T11:03:18","slug":"twitter-shares-fall-7-in-pre-market-trading-after-trumps-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Twitter shares fall 7% in pre-market trading after Trump\u2019s removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/hardfork?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2019%2F07%2FTrump-Twitter.jpg&amp;signature=c13f0bfffb68765dee558036f6294609\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Twitter took a huge step last week and banned the outgoing <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/twitter\/2021\/01\/09\/donald-trump-has-been-permanently-banned-from-twitter\/\">US President Donald Trump<\/a> from the platform forever. In the announcement, the company referred to riots at the Capitol building and said the account was suspended due to \u201c<span>to the risk of further incitement of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After this decision, the social networking platform\u2019s share prices dived and fell 7.2% in pre-market trading as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-11\/twitter-shares-fall-6-following-permanent-trump-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a>. However, it would be too early to say if these prices would plunge further as the markets will open later this morning in the US.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of Republicans, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1347698165030346752?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump Jr.<\/a>, lashed out against the ban and said that accounts of numerous other dictators who have threatened genocide were active.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing President was one of the most high-profile and active users of the platform. He used the site to communicate about firings and \u201ccall out fake news.\u201d As per an article from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-david-letterman-reality-tv-cea450b1f12f4ceb8984972a120018d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Associated Press<\/a>, Trump tweeted more than 57,000 times before his account was banned.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was also banned by Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and Twitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published January 11, 2021 \u2014 11:03 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/hardfork\/2021\/01\/11\/twitter-shares-fall-7-in-pre-market-trading-after-trumps-removal\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter took a huge step last week and banned the outgoing US President Donald Trump from the platform forever. In the announcement, the company referred to riots at the Capitol building and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}