Alex Jones/YouTube Twitter has locked Alex Jones' account for seven days after the Infowars host broke the company's rules. The conspiracy theorist will be unable to tweet and can only read posts from people he follows. Amid significant pressure to follow Apple, Facebook, and YouTube in deleting Jones' account permanently, it appears that Twitter is keeping a watching brief. Twitter has put Alex Jones in the sin bin for seven days after the Infowars host broke the company's rules. Amid significant pressure to follow Apple, Facebook, and YouTube in deleting Jones' account permanently, it appears that Twitter is keeping a watching brief, rather than punishing him retrospectively.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: Everything Samsung just announced — the Galaxy Note 9, Fortnite, and moreSee Also:A Twitter engineer says he's deleting the app from his own phone in a protest of CEO Jack Dorsey's policiesTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey just called in to Sean Hannity's radio show to discuss the recent 'shadow banning' accusationsInstagram added more new users last year than Snapchat has in totalSEE ALSO: Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube shut down Infowars' Alex Jones