{"id":35901,"date":"2021-03-03T21:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T19:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=35901"},"modified":"2021-03-03T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:41:15","slug":"twitter-suspends-matigaris-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/twitter-suspends-matigaris-account","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Suspends Matigari\u2019s Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Twitter has suspended the account of popular Zimbabwean Twitter character mmatigari for violating Twitter rules. Twitter listed the rules that could have lead to the suspension of matigari\u2019s account and said one\u2019s account will be suspended if they violate any of the following rules:<\/p>\n<p>It is still not clear which one of the rules Matigari\u2019s account violated. Matigari is a well-known government and President Mnangagwa supporter who would support and defend and in some instances mock anyone who was on the other side of President Mnangagwa\u2019s administration. The account had over 161 000 followers before it was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Most people who commented on Hopewell Chin\u2019ono\u2019s Twitter post announcing the development celebrated as they called the account toxic.<\/p>\n<p>In January Twitter suspended the account of Donald Trump for tweeting falsehoods just before he left office.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Twitter has suspended the account of popular Zimbabwean Twitter character mmatigari for violating Twitter rules. Twitter listed the rules that could have lead to the suspension of matigari\u2019s account and said one\u2019s account will be suspended if they violate any of the following rules: It is still not clear which one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,3361,3362,3363,3364,3365,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-35901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-mamatigari","14":"tag-matigary","15":"tag-matigary-suspended","16":"tag-mmatigary","17":"tag-twitter-suspends-matigary","18":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Twitter Suspends Matigari\u2019s Account - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Twitter has suspended the account of popular Zimbabwean Twitter character mmatigari for violating Twitter rules. 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