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Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Was Deleted By A Rogue Employee On Their Last Day
The online world stood still late on Thursday night when Donald Trump’s Twitter account vanished into thin air.
Social media users noticed that for a short period of time around 11pm British time @realDonaldTrump – arguably the world’s most infamous handle – was no more.
Of course, this is the platform where Trump takes care of business. His megaphone. His oxygen.
Many of the president’s critics, and even some of his supporters, have decried Trump’s Twitter habits.
And a number of users criticised Twitter for not suspending the president’s account after he purportedly violated the platform’s user guidelines over what some called a clear threat of violence.
In one tweet, the president threatened that North Korea “won’t be around much longer” if the country’s leadership allowed hostile rhetoric against the United States to continue. North Korea’s government called it a declaration of war.
So most enjoyed the break, however brief.
@jack I need to very seriously tell you that the 70 seconds that Trump’s twitter account went away were the happiest 70 seconds of my year.
— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) November 2, 2017
when you thought Trump’s twitter was deleted but then it came back within 70 seconds pic.twitter.com/InIxdwWErZ
— Umair Siddiqui (@OfficialUmairS) November 3, 2017
We’ll all remember where we were during the 10 minutes of peace while Donald Trump’s Twitter account was down.
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 2, 2017
The account swiftly returned and normal order – such as it is – was restored. But nature abhors a vacuum, and with no explanation ‘why?’, people started to devise there own theories.
Trump’s twitter account vanishing and then reappearing moments later is the best evidence yet that the events of the past 2 years are the result of warring sects of time travellers
— Nfinit (@Nfinit) November 2, 2017
An hour later, Twitter ’fessed up. It was all “a human error” and the outage was a full 11 minutes.
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
But later still came a more thorough explanation.
It seems that an employee who was leaving the company deleted the account on their last day.
“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,” the company explained. “We are conducting a full internal review.”
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. t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
With that, Twitter users were done.
Twitter employee whose last day at work was spent deleting Trump’s Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/0qqMMCrJN7
— MzFightDiva40 (@MzFightDiva40) November 3, 2017
Trump’s Twitter was deactivated by a “Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day.”
!!! pic.twitter.com/9xYfL9SAVE
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 3, 2017
New Twitter employee mistakenly deactivates Donald Trump’s Twitter account pic.twitter.com/gZ50xWC2bo
— Alex Marr (@Alexmarr98) November 3, 2017
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-twitter-account-deleted_uk_59fbde5be4b0415a420ad1f8
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