Trump's Twitter account briefly 'inadvertently deactivated' by Twitter employee, company says

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Source: ABC News

The Twittersphere lit up Thursday night when President Donald Trump's Twitter account was briefly deactivated -- an action "inadvertently" caused by a Twitter employee, the social media company said.

"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" was the message that greeted visitors to Trump's Twitter page, @RealDonaldTrump, for eleven minutes around 7 p.m. ET.

The president has 41.7 million Twitter followers.

Twitter said in a statement, "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."

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-twitter-account-briefly-critics-seize-chance-ridicule/story?id=50897711

[truthisfreedom]

1. Hah! Test run. Preparing to pull the plug on the fake press-ident.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Is the employee an ex-employee? n/t

[marylandblue]

3. Is the employee a democrat or an embarrassed republican?

[Gothmog]

4. From my twitter feed

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[SergeStorms]

5. That would have been enough....

to start World War III if it hadn't been corrected. "The Donald" would NOT stand for that!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee on the employee's last day

Retweeted by Alt EEOB: https://twitter.com/AltEEOB

"We have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day"

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Hero

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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.

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[Blue_Tires]

7. Get that person a medal!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Quite the inspiration. I hope others emulate him or her. NT