American musician Ye has returned to Twitter after a two-week hiatus from the social community, and new proprietor Elon Musk welcomed him again on the platform. Posting from an iPhone on Sunday, the artist previously generally known as Kanye West first examined that he was nonetheless unblocked — his account had been briefly suspended and restored on the finish of October, which Musk mentioned was not his choice — earlier than following up with “Shalom”. Ye’s earlier suspension had been attributable to an antisemitic tweet. The hip hop artist final month agreed to purchase social media platform Parler, embraced by conservatives as a substitute for Twitter.

Musk responded positively to Ye’s preliminary tweet, tweeting “Don’t kill what ye hate, Save what ye love.”

Twitter’s new chief, who’s additionally chief government officer of Tesla and SpaceX, spent the weekend polling his followers on the platform whether or not to revive the entry of Donald Trump, the previous US president who was completely suspended following the Jan. 6 breaching of the US capitol. Some 52 % responded within the affirmative and Trump is now clear to return — although he is responded saying that he’ll stick with his personal social community, Truth Social.

Musk posted and deleted a tweet that depicted Twitter as a drug that Trump will likely be sorely tempted to return to. The billionaire Twitter proprietor’s courtship of the community’s controversial figures — beside himself — threatens to additional alienate advertisers, who’ve been cautious about associating their manufacturers with the service in latest instances.

Twitter has been setting new highs for person numbers below Musk’s management, which has attracted consideration for abrupt job cuts, equivocation on product modifications and an ultimatum to staff to both keep for a brand new “hardcore” work tradition or depart.