Regardless of the reason, the Twitter account of Julian Assange has disappeared:
The official Twitter account of controversial Wikileaks founder Julian Assange — @JulianAssange — isn’t showing up.
Instead, anyone trying to reach it gets this message: Sorry that page doesn’t exist.
It wasn’t clear whether the account was suspended or deleted by Twitter or Assange himself — or why or for how long. Twitter wasn’t commenting.
The official Wikileaks Twitter account was still live but wasn’t mentioning the Assange account.
An account purporting to be an alternative Assange account was claiming Twitter had deleted his official one ahead of a blockbuster story he’s preparing to break. There was no confirmation that Assange was authoring that alternative account — and that account has now been suspended by Twitter.
But did it do so of the account owner’s volition or not? That is the question. The one thing that is clear is that Assange’s account wasn’t perma-suspended like mine. But as to whether it was Twitter or Assange who deleted the account, we can’t know until one of them accepts or rejects responsibility. My assumption is that Assange deleted it himself, because Twitter seems to prefer the softer approach of permanent suspensions to outright bans.