It wasn't that way is 2015 & 2016 when DJT announced, and I disagree, it will affect the election. That's the reason for the conservative bannings.
Twitter is small, ugly, and not as powerful as leftist journalists pretend it is when they quote it. As if it were a real cross section of America. Trump, all by himself, uses it as a counter to their moronic rabid leftism. I hope they try to ban him, they would destroy themselves if they did.
It's Google and Facebook who has the power. Along with Twitter, they need to be broken up for pretending to be public service, free speech platforms. They're not. They are hard leftist, with the intent to make America hard left. They were just as much so in 2015 and 2016. They are all bad actors.