Twitter later tweeted a statement, saying Trump’s account was “inadvertently deactivated due to human error” by an employee.
Twitter is “conducting a full internal review” after President Trump’s personal Twitter account was “inadvertently deactivated” for a short period of time Thursday.
“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 social media giant tweeted late Thursday about the unusual disruption. “We are conducting a full internal review.”
When Trump’s account went dark near 7 p.m. ET, users on the popular social media service freaked out:
That Donald Trump account is gone. Now I’m worried. pic.twitter.com/Le9zkGHoQh
I’m not usually a person who covers the president’s tweets. But. Um.
aw man pic.twitter.com/9wWSmZfNec
Once Trump’s account eventually re-emerged, it didn’t stop Twitter from raising more questions:
Where were you when you heard that Trump’s twitter account had been deleted?
Feel like I need to re-evaluate my life choices after reflecting on my reaction to Trump’s Twitter.
Why did Trump’s Twitter account just disappear for 15 minutes?
Twitter clarified the original confusion in a tweet Thursday.
“Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” Twitter Government tweeted. “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.”
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.
“I believe it’s really important to hear directly from our leadership,” Dorsey told NBC’s Willie Geist. “I believe it’s really important to hold him accountable. And I believe it’s really important to have these conversations out in the open rather than behind closed doors.”
Trump’s account disruption comes hours after tweeting that he was backing off the idea of sending New York terrorism suspect to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling for a regular federal trial and the death penalty instead.
Would love to send the NYC terrorist to Guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the Federal system…
… There is also something appropriate about keeping him in the home of the horrible crime he committed. Should move fast. DEATH PENALTY!
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