Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images and Courtesy/Sen. Steve Daines
- GOP Sen. Steve Daines' Twitter account was suspended Tuesday for violating the site's rules.
- His profile photo, showing him posing with a dead antelope, violated rules prohibiting graphic imagery.
- Daines, whose account was reinstated hours later, told reporters that Elon Musk called him.
Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana heaped praise on Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday after the senator's Twitter account was restored.
The social media company suspended Daines' Twitter account earlier on Tuesday over an apparent violation of the platform's rules against adult content or graphic imagery in profile photos — the senator's profile photo features him posing with a photo of a dead antelope that he and his wife Cindy hunted.