On Thursday, Trump blamed the 11-minute account outage
on Twitter on a "rogue employee."
Trump tweeted on Friday morning that his account on
Twitter was deleted for 11 minutes by a rogue staff member. He said that he
guessed the word finally must be getting out-and having a huge impact.
Twitter launched its own internal investigation on Thursday
after a "customer support" worker, reportedly working her or his last
day with Twitter, deactivated the highly viewed Twitter account of Trump for a
brief time.
The company commented in a statement concerning the
11-minuted outage that they’re conducting a complete internal investigation.
It wasn’t clear how a “customer support” employee
obtained clearance to deactivate this type of high-profile account. Trump
tweeted over 36,000 times and has almost 42 million followers.
As reports initially came to the surface regarding the
outage, officials on Twitter blamed it on “human error.”
Right before 7 p.m. on Thursday, social media reports
came to the surface that the president’s @realDonaldTrump personal account,
wasn’t available, showing the error message, ‘that user doesn’t exist.’ By 7:03
p.m. his account was restored.
However, around two hours later, Twitter reported that
the deactivation was conducted by a customer support worker on Twitter who did
this on the worker's last day.
In the past, Twitter has suspended additional accounts
for violating its conditions and terms. Twitter resisted calls from the ones
opposed to Trump to delete his account.
A White House spokesperson didn’t respond immediately
to any requests for comment.
The president didn’t instantly address the outage
after the account was reactivated. He, instead, tweeted his opinion on the GOP
tax plan.
According to Trump there was a great tax cut rollout
and lobbyists are storming Capital Hill, yet Republicans are going to hold
strong and do what’s right for the American people.
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