Donald Trump – US 45th President on Thursday evening shortly before 7 p.m suffered a Twitter outage for 11 minutes after his account @realdonaldtrump was brought down by a Twitter employee.
According to confirmations by Micro-blogging website; Twitter Inc, a Twitter employee brought down Trump’s Twitter account for 11 minutes on his last day at office.
Later Twitter’s Government and Elections team issued a number of tweets attributing this incident to a rogue employee. In one of the tweets mentioned, “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.”
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,” they added.
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
Twitter user, Cabel Sasser, said the time during which “Trump’s twitter account went away” were “the happiest” of his year.
