# 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:** 66
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1303 "2022-09-15T20:27:04Z")
> **[FBI seizes Mike Lindell’s phone in probe of Colo. voting machine breach](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/14/mike-lindell-phone-fbi-mypillow/)** > > The FBI acknowledged that a search warrant was served but declined to elaborate. Apparently it happened. They are investigating Tina Peters. Lindell supposedly bankrolled those clowns. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1304 "2022-09-15T20:30:46Z")
> [@gnarator](#): > > They are investigating Tina Peters. Lindell supposedly bankrolled those clowns. She was at his “symposium” or whatever it was, when he live-streamed for hours and had lots of people talking about the election being stolen but offered no evidence (even though he claimed he was revealing it). So that’s not at all a surprise to me. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1305 "2022-09-15T20:33:42Z")
I watched some of that to see what it was all about. It was all about selling pillows. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1306 "2022-09-15T20:40:12Z")
Here is an article talking about this mess, and how Lindell factors in: > **[The Election Official Who Tried to Prove “Stop the Steal”](https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-election-official-who-tried-to-prove-stop-the-steal)** > > How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged. > The plan that Frank devised with Tina Peters and Sherronna Bishop centered on a planned software update—called a “trusted build”—of the county’s Dominion Voting Systems machines. Because election equipment is not meant to be connected to the Internet, which could open it up to hackers, Dominion’s software upgrades are conducted in person, with only limited personnel in attendance. Frank said he told Peters that it was imperative to make a copy of the existing system before the machines were reprogrammed. “ ‘Otherwise, you’ll lose your evidence,’ ” Frank recalled telling her. “So that’s when I put her in contact with some people who could come in and do backups.” > > One of the people Frank said he contacted was Mike Lindell, the MyPillow C.E.O., who has boasted about spending at least thirty-five million dollars to try to prove that the 2020 election was stolen. “Mike hired me to be a consultant in some of his lawsuits against Dominion Voting Systems,” Frank said. (Lindell disputed this characterization.) Frank also claimed that Lindell introduced him to Trump’s legal team on a video call. “It’s all the attorneys,” Frank said. “Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and all those people—about sixteen of them. And they screened my work.” (Powell and Giuliani could not be reached for comments. Lindell denied personally introducing Frank to Trump’s legal team, though he added it was possible that one of his attorneys did.) Frank told me that he “passed along the information” about Tina Peters “to the Lindell team and said, ‘Look, she has these systems that need backup, and let’s send somebody to her who can do this, and do it properly.’ ” (Lindell said, “I had nothing to do with what Frank did with Peters and Bishop” at the time.) Frank, by the way, was Douglas Frank, who was “a high-school math and science teacher with a doctorate in chemistry”. The reason he got involved was because he “was then crisscrossing the country, presenting evidence of a secret algorithm he said he’d discovered that supposedly showed how elections were rigged”. (All from that article.) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1307 "2022-09-17T06:09:05Z")
A _secret_ algorithm? [![](http://bioinformatics-core-shared-training.github.io/rep-research-masterclass/SidneyHarris_MiracleWeb.jpg) ](http://bioinformatics-core-shared-training.github.io/rep-research-masterclass/SidneyHarris_MiracleWeb.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1308 "2022-09-17T14:09:53Z")
That cartoon has been one of my favourites for decades (I think), but I haven’t seen it since it was published. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1309 "2022-09-21T17:41:05Z")
Lindell is suing DOJ to get his phone back. He claims he doesn’t own a computer and does all his business and banking by phone, which has all his passwords. He also needs it back because it has software for his hearing aids. You know what Mikey? So does mine, but I can operate them manually if I have to. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1310 "2022-09-21T18:30:01Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > He also needs it back because it has software for his hearing aids. He wears hearing aids? The way he seems to constantly be yelling made me think he _needed_ hearing aids. Hate to hear him without them in! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1311 "2022-09-21T19:16:47Z")
Can’t he just get a new phone and ask the cops to load it up? ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1312 "2022-09-21T19:32:52Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Lindell is suing DOJ to get his phone back. And now… > [@](#): > > Leung approved the warrant based on probable cause that Lindell and other possible co-conspirators may have violated federal laws prohibiting identity fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States and causing intentional damage a protected computer. > … > Lindell’s attorneys uploaded the warrant as part of their lawsuit against the Justice Department to demand the return of Lindell’s cell phone… [https://www.reuters.com/legal/my-pillow-ceo-trump-ally-faces-probe-plot-target-2020-election-computers-2022-09-21/](https://www.reuters.com/legal/my-pillow-ceo-trump-ally-faces-probe-plot-target-2020-election-computers-2022-09-21/) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1313 "2022-09-21T19:38:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Lindell is suing DOJ to get his phone back. He claims he doesn’t own a computer and does all his business and banking by phone, which has all his passwords. Isn’t that why the DOJ wants it too? Seems like that’s akin to suing the police to get your drugs back because you really like drugs. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1314 "2022-09-21T20:09:07Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Lindell is suing DOJ to get his phone back. He claims he doesn’t own a computer and does all his business and banking by phone, which has all his passwords. > > He also needs it back because it has software for his hearing aids. You know what Mikey? So does mine, but I can operate them manually if I have to. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BR9iopIkh0o/VVuGsapiXaI/AAAAAAAAAyg/zDae533--RU/s1600/5644460tournesol.jpg) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BR9iopIkh0o/VVuGsapiXaI/AAAAAAAAAyg/zDae533--RU/s1600/5644460tournesol.jpg) Manually, you said? Lindell needs one like this then. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1315 "2022-09-23T22:25:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Isn’t that why the DOJ wants it too? Seems like that’s akin to suing the police to get your drugs back because you really like drugs. 🤣 The biggest traitor and criminal in the US is being supported by an idiot that is losing millions to support him. He has all the data. But it’s on his cell phone. 🤣 I really don’t care what their supporters do. They are fools and morons. Many already going to prison. Garland has his ducks in row and is moving forward. Sure it’s slow. Justice is slow. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1316 "2022-11-15T15:21:53Z")
Just linked this for the “where are the election deniers” but you don’t think Lindell would miss this chance would you? Of course not, even though he should be worrying about the [courts slapping down his efforts to claw back his phone from the feds](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/03/judge-shoots-down-mike-lindells-reclaim-seized-phone-00065084)… > **[PolitiFact - Why vote spikes on graphs shared by Mike Lindell are not...](https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/nov/11/why-vote-spikes-graphs-shared-mike-lindell-are-not/)** > > MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, has shared numerous debunked conspiracy > Lindell shared a graphic on Instagram and in a video showing Warnock receiving a sharp spike in votes around 9 p.m. > > “They are currently stealing Herschel Walkers race with the machines!” [he wrote](https://www.instagram.com/p/CkuUk2eN_Zy/) on Instagram. > > “Oh wow, look at this everybody. This is real-time crime, our first one of the night,” Lindell said [in the video](https://frankspeech.com/video/2022-election-coverage-night-part-4), which shows the graph at about the 43:00 mark. “This is exciting. They are caught!” -narrator voice- No they are not. The usual claims, and the usual, almost tired debunking of ML’s claims. I suspect that with Trump in view, no one is paying a great deal of attention to old Mikey… ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1317 "2022-11-15T16:33:31Z")
You just wait! Mikey grabbed all the packets and he’ll show the whole world rock solid proof in 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:** [November 15, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1318 "2022-11-15T23:28:57Z")
Mike, you built a fortune on selling overpriced, uncomfortable pillows. That’s all you know. You don’t understand the data you’re looking at. Go find a more productive hobby. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1319 "2022-11-16T00:04:34Z")
Mike has teamed up with the God to defeat the Republicans to prove the Democrats stole the last election. Or something like that. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AqhGoo_nV3M/maxresdefault.jpg "MyPillow Guy Says He And God Teamed Up To Make Republicans Lose Midterms") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqhGoo_nV3M) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1320 "2022-11-16T04:56:46Z")
Yeah, like smoking crack. If that kept him off the news, good. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1321 "2022-11-16T14:23:19Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Mike, you built a fortune on selling overpriced, uncomfortable pillows. That’s all you know. To be fair, he also knows how to lose some of that fortune by being fined for exaggerating his product’s heath benefits. At his core, he’s little more than a snake oil salesman; election denial is his new snake oil. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-bans-mypillow-corporate-account-after-mike-lindell-uses-it-to-circumvent-personal-twitter-ban/932095/1322 "2022-11-16T21:16:20Z")
I’d like to hear him explain what a logarithm is. Or what “cyber” means. He throws those words around a lot. Lip licking idiot. [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=65) [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=67)