Outgoing Twitter employee’s mic drop: deactivating Donald Trump’s account
President Donald Trump’s Twitter handle went dark for a brief moment Thursday before being restored.
Twitter officials initially said the president’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account, officials said, was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored.
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.
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Later Thursday, the company announced a preliminary investigation revealed the deactivation was done by a Twitter customer support employee “who did this on the employee’s last day.”
In a tweet, the company said a full internal review is underway.
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
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
“We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,” the company wrote in a tweet.
White House officials had not commented on the situation late Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
But Twitter users from all sides had plenty to say.
“I remember back when Christmas actually came early. The year was 2017... Trump’s Twitter went MIA for 11 minutes.” pic.twitter.com/1n84TcvEB6
— Social Currentcy (@SocialCurrentcy) November 3, 2017
For a brief moment Trump’s twitter was down & outside my window white nationalists were paying reparations to black people.
— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) November 2, 2017
Then I awoke.
if you are the former twitter employee who suspended Donald Trump's account I don't need to break news about you or exploit you for my boss I just want to send you a good cat gif and like $20
— andrea grimes (@andreagrimes) November 3, 2017
contact me andrea dot grimes at gmail
I bet Trump’s twitter going down was intentional! They hate that our President takes his message straight to the people bypassing the MSM.
— Educating Liberals (@Education4Libs) November 3, 2017
Libs Are Celebrating Someone Taking Down "Trump's Twitter"...
— DeplorableRāzərbak (@MediaJuggernaut) November 3, 2017
I'm Celebrating Hillary NOT Being President#SorryNotSorry pic.twitter.com/dN5BGbQiLv
FWIW I don't buy Twitter's explanation & believe the truth of why Trump's account was deleted/disabled is even stupider
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 3, 2017
This story was originally published November 2, 2017 at 9:39 PM with the headline "Outgoing Twitter employee’s mic drop: deactivating Donald Trump’s account."