Twitter has admitted that President Donald Trump’s account was deactivated by one of their employees.
Trump’s personal Twitter account disappeared from the site for several minutes on Thursday night.
Wow. Okay. They actually did it. @realDonaldTrump, you’re fired, says Twitter pic.twitter.com/iqO4VZn7ja
— The Register (@TheRegister) November 2, 2017
Twitter blamed human error at first.
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They first said that Trump’s Twitter account was “inadvertently deactivated” due to human error by a Twitter Inc employee on Thursday and was 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 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
They later attributed the move to an employee who used their last day on the job to deactivate the president’s account
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
On Friday morning Mr Trump responded to the incident
“I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact,” Trump said, though it was unclear what ‘the word’ was.
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
Though the account was quickly reactivated, it continued to do strange things into the evening. At one point, the president’s followers had all but disappeared.