A new @simAlitySo this is mildly amusing. Even more amusing is that all three posts have been deleted. š š
Correction: not deleted yet
As long as I have everyone's attention....check out my sound cloud!
Just kidding.
More seriously, Musk is already backpedalling on these bans and I expect he will try and retcon them into suspensions. But from a technical standpoint there is a big difference between the two.
1/
(because Im still more comfortable with breaking up my thoughts like this)
Suspensions simply block a user's access to their account.
Bans hide everything the user contributed to the site. Bots and journalists are very prolific tweeters and their tweets tend to garner a lot of engagement. Hiding all that content is resource intensive.
Restoring it is equally intensive.
Pre-Musk twitter could handle the load well enough.
2/
Musk's Twitter is operating with a skeleton crew.
Additionally, while there have been large scale purges of user accounts in the past I don't know of any large scale restorations. Restoring content will likely cause its own brand of chaos (database conflicts; server crashes).
Chaos that the remaining staff may not be able to manage.
Lump@simALITY Vox Populi, Vox Delete
SloanLA@simALITY If he canāt get his true believers to vote how he wants, not sure what he is going to do.
mary angela pernaā
Chanders@simALITY he really deleted the second one too? š¤
Ed Williams@Chanders The second poll is still live, not deleted.
Neave Interactive@simALITY I wish but no theyāre still up
kkeller@simALITY VOX POPULI, VOX DEI!
Jake Jarvis 
@simALITY he is so unbelievably pathetic and transparent. and they call *us* the snowflakes?! āļø
airportline@simALITY They haven't been deleted yet
Lt.Cpl Š„ŃŃŠ²ŃŠ¹ ŠŃŠµŠ»Š¾Š²Š¾Š“@simALITY Hmmmm, I still see all 3 tweets up on his page
dushinto@simALITY in the replies people were telling him that the "other 3 options were more votes than 'now'".
He thought he was going to see 7 days win big LOL
bbennettesq 
@simALITY How did it go? Vox Populi, Vox Dei?
hybrid havoc@simALITY This is indeed pretty funny, and is a great demonstration of what would have happened with earlier polls had they not gone the way he wanted.
max@simALITY posts are still there
April King
Jeremy Akers@jeremy_akers @april @mmasnick yeah. Sorry. I tried to find them again b4 posting and couldn't. I thought they were deleted.
SAKDOS@jeremy_akers @april @simALITY @mmasnick For a moment I also thought he had also deleted the previous ones. I think there may have been a brief Twitter glitch where some his tweets weren't visible or something.
@SAKDOS thanks for the support.
Justin Wirth@jcwirth my bad. It looked like they had been deleted earlier....
Alt text: Three screenshotted Twitter posts by Elon Musk. The first message asks "Unsuspended accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time" and offers the following poll options: Now, Tomorrow, 7 days from now, and Longer. Their vote percentages are, respectively, 43%, 4%, 14%, and 38%.
The second message says "Sorry, too many options. Will redo poll."
The third message asks the same question as the first with only two options: Now, or In 7 days. Vote totals respectively 59% and 41%.
Lizard@simALITY Musk believes in one man, one vote. He is the one man, and he has the one vote.
(Stolen from Terry Pratchett)
(Stolen from Terry Pratchett)
Jared Manfredi
Sophie Zhang (å¼ å¦č²)
Mats Henricson@simALITY I just checked, and they aren't deleted for me....
Suran š¦@simALITY
Popcorn!
Popcorn!
The Magic Lemur (Eat The Rich)
Bob@simALITY I can see them right now.
CarlG
Bellison22@simALITY so Elon imagines these people as YoYos?!
Pyperkub@simALITY missing the ban Elon Musk option which would really Mahe the bird site fly!
Down10@simALITY Did he do it? I'm guessing not.
WesDym@simALITY What does that even mean? No "accounts" can even KNOW his "exact location", at ANY time.
He uses words so strangely. It's like he doesn't even know what they mean. And we know that English is his first (and mostly only) language.
Whey Standard@simALITY vox populi, eat my A
JenL@simALITY guess heās done pretending to care about Vox Populii now.
@jelasher he's in a narcissistic rage. I expect the backlash is going to result in him reversing course...which might actually do the site in for real.
He's already talking about reversing the bans after 7 days. If he does so tomorrow....or better/worse yet today....that might be it for it.
JudeBP@simALITY because Musk-rat didnāt get the answers he wanted.