Cheeky Twitter employee deletes Trumps account, temporarily
On Friday morning, the internet breathed a welcome (if short-lived) sigh of relief when Donald Trump’s Twitter account was deleted by a cheeky employee.
His account suddenly disappeared from the web for 11 minutes and it was originally unclear why.
In a tweet Friday morning, Twitter confirmed that the account was deactivated “by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day.”
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
According to Twitter, the company is conducting a “full internal review” of how this terrible event could have possibly happened.
Twitter later tweeted that it was because of “human error,” and that the company was investigating further.
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
Many on Twitter had a field day with Trump’s temporary ban. The silver lining for Twitter: This generated a lot of funny tweets.
It was a heroic act, not an error.
— Nick (@NickHennessy) November 3, 2017
Who ever it was deserves a raise.
— Mr NASCAR (@NascarBettor) November 3, 2017
His account breaches your own TOS. It should be taken down but you care more about popularity than your own TOS.
— Renee D (@ReneeAD28) November 3, 2017
Please don’t… And give that employee a raise
— Burt McGirt (@xBurtMcGirtx) November 3, 2017
Why would you not let this happen again? The world was at peace for 11 minutes.
— al2169 (@al2169) November 3, 2017
does this person get a statue in their honor for doing a heroic thing?
— Rob @ #BlizzCon (@RobertAWing) November 3, 2017
Which means intelligence, sanity, literacy, and reality returned to Twitter for 11 minutes
— Bob Conner (@bobconner2) November 3, 2017
Hey if any other twitter employees want to do that tomorrow morning at 6 and then every day for the next year that would be great.
— Eliot Goldberg (@goldbergatash) November 3, 2017