Twitter said it had permanently suspended the account of outgoing US President Donald Trump due to what it described as the risk of further incitement to violence, two days after the bloody riots of a number of his supporters stormed the Congress building for several hours in an unprecedented event in American history.
The site stated that the decision came after a careful review of the recent tweets of Trump's account and the circumstances surrounding them.
On Thursday, Twitter blocked accounts of pro-Trump figures, including General Michael Flynn, the first national security advisor to the outgoing president, due to the promotion of conspiracy theories by an extremist right-wing organization, according to the site.
Twitter also deleted several tweets of the outgoing Republican president, who continued to challenge the validity of the presidential elections, and froze his account for 12 hours, before reactivating it on Thursday.
At the time, the site threatened to permanently close Trump's account if it continued to violate the rules of use related to civil integrity.
Several social media platforms - including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube - have taken punitive measures against President Trump, including a temporary suspension of his accounts after his supporters stormed the Congress building in Washington on Wednesday, amid accusations against him of fueling violence.
On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the suspension of Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for an indefinite period for "at least two weeks."
"The traumatic events of the past 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining term in office to undermine a sound and legal transfer of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden," Zuckerberg said in a statement.
Since the presidential elections - which were held on November 3, in which Democratic candidate Joe Biden won - the outgoing president has been spreading extensively through Twitter tweets talking about widespread fraud in the presidential elections, as well as continuing to attack the media he describes. As false and as "the enemy of the people".
This prompted Twitter officials to place warning signs on Tweets that Trump posts as "misleading."
In a simultaneous action, the president of the Instagram site announced that the US President's account on this platform would be suspended for 24 hours.
YouTube also deleted the video that Trump posted on his account on this platform, in which he called on his supporters to withdraw from the Congress building, and in which he spoke again about election fraud.
In turn, "Snapchat" banned the outgoing US president from posting on the platform for the same reason.