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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateDozens of police officers stood guard outside Twitter’s headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco Monday morning prepared for a potentially tumultuous demonstration in support of President Trump after the social media companyBut no one showed up.Metal Public Works barricades lined the entire block between 9th and 10th streets, and between Market and Mission Streets.Ordinarily, employees from Twitter, Uber and Dolby would be heading into work. But with most offices closed due to the coronavirus, the area was largely silent with just a few people ambling down the street.Outside Twitter, Kenneth Lundgreen, 71, held a sign that read, “COUNTER TRUMP’S COUP ATTEMPTS.” He said he heard about the protest and showed up in hopes of being a peaceful presence, if and when crowds arrived.“I want to act as a counter balance of the unruly mobs, who are set on sedition and insurrection,” he said, referring to the mob that stormed the Capitol last week.Trump’s ban from the social media site comes after of the president and his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. Twitter and Facebook, which Trump was also banned from, expressed concerns that Trump could incite further violence.In front of HQ in San Francisco, where a pro-Trump protest had been announced on conservative forums like TheDonald. Right now I see about as many media as police, two leftist protesters and no pro-Trump crowd. — Michael Williams (@michaeldamianw)As president, Trump relied on the social media site to bypass traditional media channels and immediately reach his more than 88 million followers. Many of Trump’s tweets following the presidential election were used to amplify unfounded claims of voter fraud, prompting Twitter to slap warning labels on the tweets, identifying them as unsubstantiated.More for youPosts on the far-right Internet forum, The Donald.win, called on supporters to gather outside of Twitter’s headquarters on the 1300 block of Market Street to protest the company’s ban of Trump. since the start of the pandemic.People were urged to wear body cameras and bring “big” zip ties to “citizen arrest violent agitators.” This comment has now been deleted from the post. They were also instructed to wear sunglasses and MAGA hats to obscure their identities.“It is not cowardly to conceal your identity,” one user wrote. “It's mitigating risk against you and your family.”As of Monday, no users had posted updates about the protest.Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Area’s largest water districts.The FBI is currently using social media videos and interviews to identify and arrest rioters from last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.On Sunday, San Francisco police said they had been in touch with representatives from the company and would have enough resources to respond to the rally and calls for assistance across the city.A representative for Twitter said Sunday that the company has been “transparent about the factors leading up to our decision last week.”Twitter said Trump violated multiple community rules under his account, @realDonaldTrump.“We made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things,” the company said in a blog post on Friday.In response, he’d been “negotiating” with other sites and is also looking at “possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.”Trisha Thadani and Sarah Ravani are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: , Twitter:Updated to include drought zones while tracking water shortage status of your area, plus reservoir levels and a list of restrictions for the Bay Area’s largest water districts.

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateDozens of police officers stood guard outside Twitter’s headquarters on Market Street in San Francisco Monday morning prepared for a potentially tumultuous demonstration in support of President Trump after the social media companyBut no one showed up.Metal Public Works barricades lined the entire block between 9th and 10th streets, and between Market and Mission Streets.Ordinarily, employees from Twitter, Uber and Dolby would be heading into work. But with most offices closed due to the coronavirus, the area was largely silent...

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Trisha Thadani is a City Hall reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. She previously covered work-based immigration and local startups for the paper’s business section.  Thadani graduated from Boston University with a degree in journalism. Before joining The Chronicle, she held internships at The Boston Globe, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and was a Statehouse correspondent for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

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