Twitter: Employee Deactivated Trump’s Account on Last Day at Work
Company is conducting a “full internal review.”
Carlos Barria/Reuters
Twitter announced late Thursday that President Trump’s account had been briefly deactivated earlier in the evening not as a result of “human error,” as initially reported, but by an employee on his or her last day of work. “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 company announced in a statement. The company had initially said Trump’s account was “inadvertently deactivated.” Twitter users had both rejoiced and panicked Thursday afternoon upon visiting Trump’s page only to learn that @realDonaldTrump “doesn’t exist.” The account was down for 11 minutes before it was restored. Twitter says it plans to conduct an internal investigation following the incident.
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
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