David Portnoy, the founder, Barstool Sports, got suspended from social site Twitter temporarily. On Friday afternoon, this suspension of David Portnoy occurred. Barstool Sports is a blog regarding pop culture and sports.
The reasons behind this suspension remain unknown. @BFFsPod is the name of the account of Portnoy on the social site Twitter. This account features weekly podcasts hosted by Josh Richards, TikTok star, and Portnoy. The weekly podcasts are called BFFs with Josh Richards and Dave Portnoy. This account recently tweeted the picture of a screencap regarding the account of Portnoy, @stoolpresedente.
Dave Portnoy Puts Up Instagram Story With Hashtag #FREEPORTNOY!
The picture also had a message showing Account suspended. There was also an additional message regarding the same which stated that accounts suspended by Twitter are mostly accounts that manage to violate the rules stated by Twitter. Just before the clock struck 8 p.m. EST, the account tweeted this following screen cap while putting up a hashtag, #FREEPORTNOY!
This hashtag has been heavily trending throughout the social site Twitter. Just after eight p.m. ET, Dave Portnoy posted a picture of himself with Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, on his story on Instagram. The caption of the image read #freeportnoy @Jack. Just twenty minutes following this story, Dave Portnoy put up another story on his Instagram account with the same hashtag.
All the fans of Portnoy on Twitter got excited by these tweets and didn’t take much time to react. They stated their opinions alongside this new and heavily trending hashtag. One Twitter user wrote that he is chagrined and shocked about this incident because Portnoy is a true American Patriot. He also added that while he doesn’t care about politics, he is also the last hope regarding humanity.
