# Twitter bans MyPillow corporate account after Mike Lindell uses it to circumvent personal Twitter ban **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 3, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095 "2021-02-03T02:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/281 "2021-05-06T15:43:01Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Why should he care? He’s starting his own platform. It’ll be up in two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/282 "2021-05-06T15:51:17Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It’ll be up in two weeks. Is that a firm deadline? A soft deadline? Or is it customizable? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/283 "2021-05-06T16:19:14Z")
Two. Weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/284 "2021-05-06T16:27:17Z")
[https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/62217649.jpg](https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/62217649.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/285 "2021-05-06T17:30:22Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > > > Why should he care? He’s starting his own platform. > > It’ll be up in two weeks. And down again in three. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/286 "2021-05-11T23:58:58Z")
Great quote: > His Corn Palace rally was sandwiched between a Dakota Wesleyan University graduation ceremony and an event by the American Corn Hole Association. > **[Some Mike Lindell fans reportedly stood in line for 7 hours to watch his...](https://news.yahoo.com/mike-lindell-fans-reportedly-stood-115319079.html)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's event in South Dakota included speeches from the right-wing personalities Ben Carson, Eric Metaxas, and Joe Piscopo. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/287 "2021-05-12T00:15:19Z")
“American Corn Hole Association”? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/288 "2021-05-12T00:17:39Z")
It’s the rather unfortunate name for a popular lawn game in the Midwest, otherwise known as bean bag toss. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/289 "2021-05-12T00:21:39Z")
The game is like a cross between horse shoes and skee ball, played with bean bags. It’s pretty fun. But yeah, I prefer one of the other names for the game rather than proclaiming to people how much I like cornholing. > **[Cornhole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornhole)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Cornhole (also known regionally as sack toss, or bags) is a lawn game popular in North America in which players or teams take turns throwing fabric bean bags at a raised, angled board with a hole in its far end. The goal of the game is to score points by either landing a bag on the board (one point) or putting a bag through the hole (three points). > The game was first described in Heyliger de Windt's 1883 patent for "Parlor Quoits" displays mos... ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/290 "2021-05-12T00:23:40Z")
My favorite part of the article you quoted… > Lindell held the rally to launch Frank, the website that he billed as a social-media site but that so far has been a one-way platform for him to spread baseless allegations of voter fraud. Basically, his “social media platform” sounds like a blog. Just like what Trump ended up doing. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/291 "2021-05-12T00:23:52Z")
Are you ready for some hot cornholing action? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/292 "2021-05-12T01:49:44Z")
En route to helping in New Orleans after Katrina, our (liberal) church group stayed over at a Tennessee (non-liberal) church on a Saturday night, then worshipped with them the next morning. And in the middle of the service the pastor got up and complained that _not enough people were signing up for the church cornholin’ club._ Our group all just turned and stared at each other with the biggest eyes we could make. None of us had heard the wholesome definition… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/293 "2021-05-12T08:25:18Z")
I heard Jim Jordan gave a speech too… [![](https://i.imgur.com/DrwcQ3h.gif) ](https://i.imgur.com/DrwcQ3h.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/294 "2021-05-12T10:29:09Z")
Ah, Joe Piscopo, who has lost none of his blinding star power over the decades. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/295 "2021-05-12T10:52:25Z")
Republicans: “Why should we care what some overpaid celebrities think?” Also Republicans: “We found a celebrity that actually agrees with us! Let’s make him a keynote speaker!” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/296 "2021-05-12T13:40:53Z")
It gets even funnier. He was expecting 30,000 people at a venue that holds 3,200. It ended up half full. > Once the rally ended, representatives for Lindell encouraged attendees to take home multiple boxes of the pillow maven’s book. Apparently, Lindell was prepared to hand out 30,000-plus copies of his election fraud movies and books, but as it turns out, he literally couldn’t give them away. > “They were begging people to take boxes of books home to give to addicts so they can be entrepreneurs,” an attendee told Salon. > **[Mike Lindell's South Dakota rally: Proud Boys, Joe Piscopo and a can't-miss...](https://www.salon.com/2021/05/11/mike-lindells-south-dakota-rally-proud-boys-joe-piscopo-and-a-cant-miss-investment/)** > > MyPillow CEO draws half-full house at the Corn Palace, vows Trump will be back, gets stuck with his own books Also, this: > **[Coding experts tell Salon Mike Lindell's botched social site was doomed to fail](https://www.salon.com/2021/04/23/coding-experts-tell-salon-mike-lindells-botched-social-site-was-doomed-to-fail/)** > > One "grandmaster" in the content software Drupal describes Lindell's social platform as "not even student work" ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/297 "2021-05-12T13:44:33Z")
The scariest thing on that page may have been the words “while Joe Piscopo performed a music set.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/298 "2021-05-12T15:09:10Z")
Further down on the Salon link is the screenshot of the invitation to invest in Algebr\*Victor? (not wanting to give the full name in one of _my_ posts). It’s a new home-schooling site for people who think Algebra is too hard. Not being good at Algebra is probably how they came up with a 3500% rate of return. Oh, and it’s not available yet, and not in two weeks, but at the end of 2021 (so get in on the ground floor now!) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/299 "2021-05-12T16:08:59Z")
I bet it comes with pyramids. As in “join now on one of the very first exclusive levels and recruit more salespeople.” Folks who acknowledge being bad at math are a great target market for this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/300 "2021-05-12T16:16:16Z")
The “tutor” has a website of sorts. Not really anything there other than “Call-To-Action to Good People Who Love America and Love All of Humanity. If That Is You, Then Download These Documents” and the links to said documents. Plus a link to that algebra thing at the end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095.md?page=16)