Julian Assange's official Twitter account disappears

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's official Twitter account has disappeared from the platform.

Instead, users who try to access Assange's feed are redirected to a page that says "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"

It is not clear why the account, @JulianAssange, appears to no longer exist on the platform.

The official WikiLeaks account still exists and last sent out a tweet on Saturday. According to CBS News, another account — that has since been suspended — was claiming that Assange's account had been deleted by Twitter ahead of a story he was planning to publish. It was not clear if the account was actually being run by Assange.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/366412-julian-assanges-official-twitter-account-disappears

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If this would just happen to tRump's account (or, better yet, tRump).

[highplainsdem]

1. It's back.

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange

But most of his followers have disappeared.

[Clarity2]

2. I wonder

if twitter purged all the bots last night.

[highplainsdem]

3. They'd've had to purge more than bots. I despise Assange for the Kremlin tool he is, but he still

has a lot of RW fans for the help he gave Trump.

[Julian Englis]

4. CBS on the return of the Twitter Account

The official Twitter account of controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- @JulianAssange -- is back online after disappearing from the social media platform overnight. It's unclear whether the account was suspended by Twitter or deactivated by Assange.

Representatives at Twitter did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment.

Assange's account posted the following image of Santa Claus on Monday morning without explaining the brief absence.

Link to tweet

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/julian-assanges-official-twitter-account-not-appearing-wikileaks/

[bathroommonkey76]

8. Assange deactivated it for attention.

Take it from me, I've done it a few times to see if anyone would notice. lol

[Cryptoad]

5. NOw if we could make him disappear!

[sarcasmo]

6. Court ordered deletion.

[marble falls]

7. Got some more details? You have my attention!

[EricMaundry]

9. Maybe Jules forgot his password.