Twitter staffer deactivates Trump's account on last day of work
The account was restored after 11 minutes.
A Twitter employee deactivated United States President Donald Trump’s personal account before the account was restored in 11 minutes’ time, the social networking platform said on Friday. It was the employee’s last day of work, the firm said. As a result, Trump’s account page – @realDonaldTrump – showed the message “Sorry, that page does not exist!” for that brief period.
The President’s official account was not affected.
Twitter first tweeted about this at 5.35 am Indian time, saying the account had been “inadvertently deactivated due to human error” by a worker. About two hours later, it said an investigation confirmed that it was done by a customer support employee. A full internal review is under way, Twitter said.
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
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
Trump has 41.7 million followers on Twitter, and has been active on the website since March 2009. He has not yet responded to the news on his Twitter handle.