 "Donald Trump's Twitter account gets deactivated for 11 minutes: Site says outgoing employee did it")
US President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by an employee on her last day at work, and stayed down for 11 minutes before it was restored. “Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” the company said in a tweet. “We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,” it added. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
Visitors to Trump’s account around 7 pm on Thursday were met with the message, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist”. However, later in the day, the tech giant announced that it was an outgoing employee who was to be blamed.
Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
Trump has made extensive use of messages on Twitter to attack his opponents and promote his policies both during the 2016 presidential campaign and since taking office in January. He has 41.7 million followers on Twitter. “Great Tax Cut rollout today. The lobbyists are storming Capital Hill, but the Republicans will hold strong and do what is right for America!” he wrote in his first tweet after Thursday’s outage. In a similar incident last November, Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey’s account was briefly suspended as a result of what he said was an internal mistake. With inputs from Reuters
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