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For the first time, Twitter blocked the account of US President Donald Trump for the next twelve hours and threatened him with a permanent ban.

The internet service demanded that Trump remove tweets in which he excused violence.

Facebook, Twitter and Youtube had previously deleted Trump's posts after the unrest in Washington in an unusually tough procedure.

Among other things, a video was affected in which Trump called on his supporters to withdraw from the Capitol they stormed - but at the same time repeated his unsubstantiated claims about alleged election fraud.

Facebook justified the deletion with the fear that Trump's message could lead to further violence.

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In particular, Twitter has so far limited itself to warning notices for Trump because the service regards the President's contributions as historical documents.

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Now the service immediately deleted another post from Trump after the video, in which he wrote: "These are things and events that happen when a holy landslide victory is stolen so suddenly and meanly".

Trump's supporters had previously stormed the House of Parliament in Washington, while discussions to confirm the election victory of his successor Joe Biden were ongoing.

At first, Twitter only provided both Trump's posts with warnings and restricted their distribution on the platform.

Tweets that could lead to violence cannot be retweeted, replied to or given a "Like".

Twitter then called for Trump to be banned from the platform at least temporarily.

In the past few months, Facebook and Twitter had warned Trump of false information on numerous posts and in some cases also restricted their distribution.

The outgoing president then accused the platforms of political censorship.