An initial response from Twitter’s Government and Elections team blamed a “human error” as the cause of Trump’s account getting “inadvertently deactivated” by an employee. They also said that the deactivation was initiated by a Twitter customer rep on their last working day.
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.
— TwitterGov (@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. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Trump’s account wiped from its existence was quickly spotted by various Twitter users. And here are some of the responses:
https://twitter.com/rcosgrove/status/926274847075897344
Probably the single best contribution to the job. I'm pretty sure he/she will be able to get whatever job they want. #trumptwitter https://t.co/oW2BO6NLtr
— 💋♟ 𝒿ค𝓬Ҝ𝐈ε ๔𝐚𝐯ｉ丂 💢☝ (@PepperD62) November 3, 2017
That had to rank top 5 "most satisfying last act of an employee" #trumptwitter https://t.co/Qask2SAnQV
— Jonathan Tasini (@jonathantasini) November 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/SundayOmony/status/926333449740238848
https://twitter.com/CrimpChutney/status/926347471672020993
Can we nominate this former employee for a Nobel Peace Prize? That was the most peaceful 11 minutes we've had in a year #trumptwitter
— Delaney Williams, Antifa treasurer (@AuthorDelaneyW) November 3, 2017
Blue feathers flying. Twitter employee on last day at work deactivates US President Trump's account. 😳 https://t.co/ppMGdFzOi1 #TrumpTwitter pic.twitter.com/GbeRJ5SVSE
— 🚶🏻Curtis S. Chin (@CurtisSChin) November 3, 2017
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