On Wednesday, Kanye, 43, took to Twitter and uploaded a tweet which included the phone number of a Forbes journalist. The social media platform deems the sharing of people’s personal details as a breach of the site’s rules, it is as a violation of a person’s privacy.
Kanye reportedly urged his fans to call the reporter alongside the screenshot of his phone number. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that Kanye’s tweet was a violation of the rule, according to the Mirror. But he did not elaborate.
Kanye’s friend former NBA player Rick Fox revealed that Twitter had banned the Stronger hitmaker from posting on the site.
Rick wrote:
“My friend @kanyewest wants you all to know that he was kicked off of @Twitter for 12 hours.“
Twitter has since removed Kanye’s tweets alongside a number of posts that the rapper made amid his battle with music label Sony and Universal.
This week the singer dubbed himself the “new Moses” and likened the music industry to “modern-day slavery”. He also uploaded a clip of himself urinating on a Grammy Award.
This comes after his wife Kim Kardashian, 39, announced that she froze her Instagram and Facebook on Tuesday; an act to stop “the spreading of hate, propaganda, and misinformation”.
In 2018 Kanye revealed he suffers from bipolar disorder after years of unpredictable behaviour and a very public breakdown.