Twitter employee disables Trump account on day of layoff
On Thursday evening, around the 19 clock, Eastern Time, the unthinkable happened: the Twitter leader of the United States disappeared from his beloved platform.
Verified Account @ realDonaldTrump President Trump was briefly deactivated. Everyone who went to his page, saw the message: "Sorry, this page does not exist!".
It was first reported that Trump's blog was "unintentionally deactivated due to a human error." But after a couple of hours Twitter announced further investigation. Later it became known that it was not a failure, but the work of an employee Twitter on his or her last day at work.
“We found out that this was done by a customer service employee who was working for the company for the last day. “We are conducting a full-scale internal investigation,” the company said on its own Twitter account. “We continue to investigate the circumstances and are taking measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again,” the tweet said.
Trump's account was reinstated 11 minutes after deactivation.
After the incident was followed by many sarcastic jokes about the short-term outcome of Trump.
“At that moment, “Sorry, this page doesn’t exist!” “[Trump] really became President,” writes one user.
Others pondered whether Trump was banned from leaving messages on the platform.
News that it was an employee Twitter, caused a new wave of tweets.
Trump created an @realDonaldTrump Twitter account on 2009.
The US President is actively using the social network for political statements, expressing his own opinions on various issues and for attacking his political opponents.
He did this during the election campaign of 2016 of the year and continued this practice while in office.
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