Trump's Twitter account briefly 'deactivated'

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Trump's Twitter account briefly 'deactivated'

 

US President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday, but has since been restored, the social media company has said.

 

It said that the @realdonaldtrump account was "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee".

 

The account was down for 11 minutes, and Twitter is now investigating. Mr Trump - who is an active Twitter user with 41.7 million followers - has not commented on the issue.

 

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41854482

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2017-11-03

 

[Guest]

That's the way to leave a IT company :)

 

TwitterGov 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. twitter.com/TwitterGov/sta… 3 Nov 2017, 9.00

 

 

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Twitter says Trump's account 'inadvertently deactivated' by Twitter employee

 

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a tax reform industry meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

 

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was "inadvertently deactivated" due to human error by a Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> employee on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes before it was restored, the social media company said.

 

"Earlier today @realdonaldtrump's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," the company said in a tweet.

 

"We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," it added.

 

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 Officer Jack Dorsey's account was briefly suspended as a result of what he said was an internal mistake.

 

(Reporting by David Ingram; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Sandra Maler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-03

[darksidedog]

An employee on his last day "inadvertently" shut the account down? Good work by that man. Shame he couldn't have shut it down permanently.

Edited November 3, 2017 by darksidedog

[dexterm]

There's a certain symmetry here: Trump's account was originally activated by a "human error".

[Somtamnication]

11 minutes of complete and utter peace in the word. 

[55Jay]

Would have been better if the departing Twitter employee "accidentally" disabled the account and left it that way until discovered later by President Trump.  Saturday Night Live would have fun with that one.  POTUS sat on a 24k gold toilet, composing a Tweet at 02:30, giggling to himself as he hits <send>..... but nothing happens!   

[Basil B]

How do you nominate someone for the Nobel Peace prize???

[lannarebirth]

5 hours ago, Basil B said:

How do you nominate someone for the Nobel Peace prize???

As humorous as this is, questions now being asked are, if someone can arbitrarily deactivate an account from within Twitter, can that person also make comments in that account as if they were the account holder. No answers on that yet.

[Credo]

1 hour ago, lannarebirth said:

As humorous as this is, questions now being asked are, if someone can arbitrarily deactivate an account from within Twitter, can that person also make comments in that account as if they were the account holder. No answers on that yet.

It's only a question because Trump uses this as US gov't policy platform.   The rest of the world wouldn't have much trouble with a hacked account, but with him it could result in WWIII.   Perhaps it's time for him to stop with the Tweets.   

[JHolmesJr]

'inadvertently" de-activated?

 

Thats like saying inadvertently raped.

 

Lock him up,  and Bergdahl too.

[lannarebirth]

3 minutes ago, Credo said:

It's only a question because Trump uses this as US gov't policy platform.   The rest of the world wouldn't have much trouble with a hacked account, but with him it could result in WWIII.   Perhaps it's time for him to stop with the Tweets.   

Of course he should stop. Everyone should. I can't imagine why anyone feels the need to post their stream of consciousness thoughts to the WWW much less read others.

[Thakkar]

On 11/4/2017 at 5:29 AM, lannarebirth said:

As humorous as this is, questions now being asked are, if someone can arbitrarily deactivate an account from within Twitter, can that person also make comments in that account as if they were the account holder. No answers on that yet.

Like the notion that “that all men are created equal” the reason for the cheers is self evident. The reason for concern is less obvious, but worth noting. Imagine for a moment that another rogue employee were to take control of the presidential Twitter account and use it to wantonly harass private citizens, belittle Senators with slander and catchy nicknames, attack Gold Star families, spread mistruths and propaganda concocted by our enemies, defame former US presidents, taunt foreign leaders and threaten war with nuclear-armed adversaries, or even go so far as to call into question the rule of law with constant attacks on judges and law enforcement agencies.

That could be really bad.

- Dave Pell.

 

yeah, just imagine!

[Thakkar]

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