FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One upon his return to the White House in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2017.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The outage was noticed by many across the country.
Has the personal Donald Trump Twitter account been deleted? pic.twitter.com/JARH9ILsPG
— Jen Chaney (@chaneyj) November 2, 2017
“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.
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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
“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 respond immediately to a request for comment.
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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 Capitol Hill, but the Republicans will hold strong and do what is right for America!” he wrote in his first tweet after Thursday’s outage.
Despite of how serious the situation seemed, Twitter couldn't be happier about it. Some responses were rather hilarious.
That immense relief we all felt there for a second shows just how dangerous Trump's Twitter account truly is.
— Madeline Hill (@mad_hill) November 2, 2017
going as human error for halloween
— Reyner Crosby (@reyner) November 3, 2017
Happy to say I survived the @realDonaldTrump blackout. All the kids are fine. I'm reporting in as safe.
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) November 2, 2017
While some seemed confused.
Wait, what? https://t.co/qS72W51Wmn
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 2, 2017
Dead silence from TWTR PR on what happened
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 2, 2017
The ex-employee has been referred to as "the legend" for the 11 minutes of outage.
I have a quote from the ex-Twitter employee group I would like to share: "We’re now referring to this individual as 'the legend', lol"
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 3, 2017
eh, well that's over pic.twitter.com/56HEZ8xMh6
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 2, 2017
Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey’s account was briefly suspended as a result of what he said was an internal mistake in a similar incident last November.
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