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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