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pseingatl
Because Twitter won't let "non-state hostile intelligence services" have accounts? Or is it just good old fashioned censorship?
dwyer
Or maybe he deactivated it to get attention.
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senectus1
didnt he always have a deadmans switch for his twitter account?
AdamGibbins
Good, he's done nothing but damage to his cause in recent years. Not sure what happened, but glad it's stopped.
mindcrash
As far as I can see it's back, also with the entire history intact.
aviv
But without the hundreds of thousands of followers he had before.
mindcrash
Could be "incidentally" removed, then restored through backup when discovered like Trumps personal account.

Seems plausible because some people hate Assange the same amount (or possibly even more) as Trump these days.

Another option would be him temporarily putting his account in the deletion queue then undoing this later. But I can't come up with any good reason why to do this.