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If, for whatever reason, you tried to take a look at President Donald Trump's Twitter account yesterday, you may have been greeted with a notice telling you it didn't exist.
Like this:
Credit: Twitter
For 11 minutes yesterday, Trump's account was down, with people quickly speculating that the POTUS had been suspended from the social media site, until the account was later restored.
Twitter has now announced that the account was deactivated by an employee who was working out their last day for the social media company.
In a tweet, it 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."
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. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
- Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
A previous Tweet said the company was 'continuing to investigate' to 'prevent this from happening again'.
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.
- Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
After finding out that it was a soon-to-be former employee of Twitter responsible, people quickly started calling him a 'hero' for his actions:
#thanksforthepartinggift
- chrissy ☮️:om_symbol::green_heart::sunny::pray: (@frungur) November 3, 2017
The employee is an activist hero.
- olivia rose (@livyrozay) November 3, 2017
Guy is a hero. He may have prevented an international crisis in those 11 minutes. Give him a medal
- Wesley Gottesman (@WGottesman) November 3, 2017
give that guy a raise
- Denis Lachance (@Dentheluck) November 3, 2017
In a recent interview with Fox News, he said: "When somebody, says something about me, I am able to go bing, bing, bing and I take care of it. The other way, I would never be get the word out."
But his 'bing, bing, bing' approach isn't popular with everyone, North Korea accused the President of declaring war via Twitter when he posted that Kim Jong-un 'won't be around much longer'.
Unusually, President Trump hasn't commented on his account being deactivated yet, but I'm it's only a matter of time.
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Topics: US News, Twitter, Donald Trump, politics