President
Donald Trump's Twitter account disappeared for 11 minutes on Thursday evening
after a rogue employee at the social networking company deleted the entire
profile.
Shortly
before 7 p.m. Thursday, social media reports surfaced that the president's
personal account,@realdonaldtrumpwas unavailable, providing the error message
that the user 'does not exist.'
The account
was unreachable for 11 minutes and was restored a short timelater.
After a
brief investigation Twitter owned up and took responsibility for the outage.
In a tweeted
statement, the company said Trump's account was 'inadvertently deactivated due
to human error' by one of its employees.
'We are
continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening
again,' the statement continued.
But in a
second statement, Twitter confirmed it was an employee on their last day.
'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.'
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