If you want to find a specific Donald Trump tweet, you may have to go through his timeline and search for yourself. In accordance with MediatorX has turned off the ability to search Trump’s tweets. As the publication explains, you can search for specific posts by text "from:[username without the @ symbol]" followed by the term or phrase you are looking for.
So if you want to see the former president’s tweet where he says the COVID cases and deaths "it is very exaggerated in the United States" because of the CDC "rational method of determination," you can search "from:realDonaldTrump COVID." That should bring up all his tweets with this name "covid," except… it doesn’t happen. What appears is a selection of his tweets not in chronological order. We were able to replicate the results Mediator reported, as you can see below.
The former president’s Twitter account was suspended in 2021 after the company found that some of his tweets violated its policies. His was kicked off the website after the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol. Trump sued Twitter in an attempt to get his account back, but it wasn’t until Elon Musk took over that he got it back. His first and only job since then was his mug shot, taken while he was booked on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election.
As Mediator notes, it is not clear why this happens. Some accounts that have been suspended in the past and then reinstated, like Alex Jones’s, are still being checked. The accounts of other high-profile political figures, such as Kamala Harris, are regularly checked, too. A software engineer the publication spoke to said it was a deliberate move on X’s part, as the issue doesn’t seem to affect other pre-installed users. We’ve reached out to X for a statement and will update this post when asked. It is worth noting, however, that there is a free utility called "Trump Twitter Archive" which contains a searchable database of Trump’s tweets, and is still fully functional.
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