Twitter Says Employee Deactivated President Trump's Account On Last Day Of Work
- 7 years ago
Twitter is attributing the brief deactivation of President Trump's account to the actions of an employee on their last day of work.
President Trump's Twitter account was briefly deactivated Thursday evening, sparking a flurry of speculation.
Hours later, Twitter posted a status update and attributed the cause to the actions of an employee.
"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 tweeted. "We are conducting a full internal review."
In an earlier update, Twitter had said, "@realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee."
The outage lasted 11 minutes before the account was restored.
Numerous reactions followed as a result of the incident.
"If Trump's Twitter is down, does this technically mean he's no longer POTUS?" said one tweeter. "I mean, it's the only part of the job he pays attention to."
"We'll all remember where we were during the 10 minutes of peace while Donald Trump's Twitter account was down," wrote another commenter.
While someone else suggested, even before Twitter's update, "willing to bet a six pack it was an inside job, rogue employee who wanted to shut him down."
Trump has over 41 million Twitter followers. While he has been criticized for using the platform as a way to attack various individuals and organizations, Trump credits Twitter for allowing him to bypass "fake news" outlets and directly reach his audience.
President Trump's Twitter account was briefly deactivated Thursday evening, sparking a flurry of speculation.
Hours later, Twitter posted a status update and attributed the cause to the actions of an employee.
"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 tweeted. "We are conducting a full internal review."
In an earlier update, Twitter had said, "@realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee."
The outage lasted 11 minutes before the account was restored.
Numerous reactions followed as a result of the incident.
"If Trump's Twitter is down, does this technically mean he's no longer POTUS?" said one tweeter. "I mean, it's the only part of the job he pays attention to."
"We'll all remember where we were during the 10 minutes of peace while Donald Trump's Twitter account was down," wrote another commenter.
While someone else suggested, even before Twitter's update, "willing to bet a six pack it was an inside job, rogue employee who wanted to shut him down."
Trump has over 41 million Twitter followers. While he has been criticized for using the platform as a way to attack various individuals and organizations, Trump credits Twitter for allowing him to bypass "fake news" outlets and directly reach his audience.