A Twitter employee ‘deliberately’ deactivated US President Donald Trump’s personal account on their last day of work, the company said on Thursday. Initially, Twitter said it was because of “human error”. However, it was confirmed later that the account was deactivated “by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last 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.
— Twitter Government (@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
— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Donald Trump’s account was down for 11 minutes Thursday afternoon. During the brief period of downtime, anyone going to the @realDonaldTrump Twitter page would see the message, “Sorry, the page doesn’t exist!”.
While President Trump is notorious for tweeting each and every thought and often getting in feuds with other over Twitter, many considered the brief shutdown a relief and responded hilariously.
Author Mark Harris high-fived the former employee on doing a great job. He said in his tweet, “I dunno, this customer has never felt MORE supported.”
I dunno, this customer has never felt MORE supported. https://t.co/51rRrqSAyU
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) November 3, 2017
Joy Ried, American Cable TV host, called the employee a hero:
Not all heroes wear capes. https://t.co/qwwfxRyIbQ
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 3, 2017
The GIF ABC News used to break the news forced many to burst with laughter:
Twitter employee uses last day at work to deactivate US President Donald Trump’s account https://t.co/FV3wk9OU4B pic.twitter.com/vnxmc5uEHS
— ABC News (@abcnews) November 3, 2017
Judd Legum couldn’t contain his excitement and went for #neverforget:
I survived the Trump twitter outage
November 2, 2017
6:58PM to 7:04PM #neverforget
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 2, 2017
Nick Jack Pappas took the opportunity to play with the words and call Trump “Human Error”:
Trump’s Twitter account was deleted because of a “human error,” which also happens to be an appropriate name for Trump’s Twitter account.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) November 3, 2017
Rex Huppke was quick to suggest baby names:
Nine months from now there are going to be a ton of babies named “Trump’s Twitter Account Vanished.”
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) November 2, 2017
Pumpkin Rice had the most hilarious reply ever:
Trump’s Twitter account vanished for a few minutes, and we all thought maybe it was gone and we were all free.
— Pumpkin Rice! (@genevieverice) November 2, 2017
Trump’s tweets have long been criticized by people. Recently, former First Lady of US Michelle Obama gave Trump some serious advice to “NOT” tweet everything:
Though for a very short span of time, the unknown ‘legendary’ Twitter employee gave us a glimpse of what the world would look like without Trump tweeting.
