President Elect Donald Trump has used twitter extensively during the election and afterward. Normally this should be encouraged in political leaders, but Trump's influence through this medium has been damaging to American interests and American Companies that draw his ire.

As good as twitter's internal security is, no one is perfect. Because Trump has already shown a willingness to speak roughly of American companies and thereby drastically shift their stock price, and has shown an inclination to use twitter for Foreign Policy; he has made his account a giant target for hackers. As the first link below discusses, if Trump's account were compromised (as it was in 2013) the hacker would be able to create massive changes in stock price and drastically harm relations with our allies. Twitter cannot, and should not, be forced to bear the burden of securing what is essentially the official channel of communication between the President and the world. Twitter should not be put in a position to be culpable if Trump's credentials are compromised and a hacker harmes relations with our allies or a company's stock.

Twitter also must act in not only it and it's shareholder's best interest, but also in the interest of the nation as a whole. I assume that Twitter's leadership would agree that in general what is good for America is good for them. Trump's twitter account is NOT in the best interest of the United States. Before taking the oath of office, Trump has already caused at least one international incident with China, harmed Boeing and Lockheed's stock price, and insulted all Americans concerned about Russian hacking as 'Stupid'. Before Trump is able to cause more diplomatic incidents, harm more of our nation's companies, or insult more Americans, his account should be removed.

This would be an unpopular action with Trump's supporters, but Trump is only the 71st most popular person on Twitter. While there would be outrage, Twitter is under no obligation to provide accounts to anyone, and per the TOS should be able to remove any account for any reason. If the current TOS won't allow this, it's fully in Twitter's power to change the TOS. If Twitter refuses to curb Trump's tweeting, they bear partial responsibility for the harm it does.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/05/donald-trumps-twitter-account-is-a-security-disaster-waiting-to-happen.html

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/05/donald-trump-goes-after-toyota-third-automaker-in-a-week-over-mexico-manufacturing.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2016/12/14/after-boeing-trump-attacks-lockheed-martin-on-twitter/#4a4f8e463e65

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38167022