U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter
account was “inadvertently deactivated” due to human error by a Twitter Inc
employee on Thursday.
The account of the American leader that political opponents
deride as Twitter-in -chief, was down for 11 minutes before it was restored,
the social media company said. “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,” Twitter said in a tweet.
“We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to
prevent this from happening again,” the company said in an earlier tweet. A
Twitter representative declined to comment further. The White House did not
immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has made extensive use of messages on Twitter to
attack his opponents and promote his policies both during the 2016 presidential
campaign and since taking office in January. He has 41.7 million followers on
Twitter.
“Great Tax Cut rollout today. The lobbyists are storming
Capital Hill, but the Republicans will hold strong and do what is right for
America!” he wrote in his first tweet after Thursday’s outage. In a similar
incident last November, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey’s account was
briefly suspended as a result of what he said was an internal mistake.
Reuters
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