As we know, he was obsessed with Twitter and the millions following. As someone obsessed with being loved, his account was "proof" of it. Like RJ said above, he's not someone who wants to operate in the spotlight. He's a self-promoter and a star fucker, and has no interest in being de-platformed. Him losing all his unfettered, largely uncensored ability to say whatever he wants whenever he wants is one of his worst nightmares.

Yeah, they took too long to do it, but it wouldn't have stuck if they'd done it a couple of years ago. Now there's blood in the water.