The United States President Donald Trump on Thursday had his Twitter account temporarily deactivated by a Twitter employee.
Trump’s account was down for about 11 minutes, causing people to speculate he had deleted his account or had been hacked.
A quick check on the twitter account of the President of United State, Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump profile would result in the “Sorry this page doesn’t exist!” page.
After the account came back on, Twitter released a statement saying:
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.
https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048
Soon after, the @TwitterGov account released another statement saying the account had been deleted by an employee on his last day, possibly meaning it was done on purpose.
The statement read: “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://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926267806261407744
Donald Trump soon returned, tweeting about the Republican Party’s tax cuts plan.
Twitter has said it is conducting a full internal review on the issue.
