Liberal media figures everywhere rejoiced when, for a mere 11 minutes, President Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated. According to Twitter, the account was deactivated by a rogue employee on his last day.
In a tweet on Thursday evening, Twitter originally blamed “human error by a Twitter employee” for the account outage:
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
However, then after an investigation, Twitter wrote that the account was intentionally deactivated by a Twitter employee “on the employee’s last day”:
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
On Thursday morning, Trump stated it was a “rogue employee” who deactivated his account:
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
The Washington Post claims the outage occurred at 6:45 p.m. ET.
Despite the fact that Trump’s account being deactivated proves that Twitter employees have the power to deactivate accounts at whim, people were applauding the “hero” for his actions:
Dear Twitter employee who shut down Trump's Twitter: You made America feel better for 11 minutes. DM me & I will buy you a Pizza Hut pizza. https://t.co/ruzaVBcQp1
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 3, 2017
Shout out to the Twitter employee who deactivated Donald Trump's account for 11 mins on his/her last day in the job.
— Paddy Power (@paddypower) November 3, 2017
What a hero. pic.twitter.com/I3Y1dij6Fj
A disgruntled Twitter employee disabled Trump's Twitter? For 11 minutes. That tells me we need a lot more disgruntled Twitter employees.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) November 3, 2017
#HowToBePopularIn4Words
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) November 3, 2017
"I deactivated Trump's twitter." pic.twitter.com/Zzf1QIDbDc
When you delete Trump’s twitter account on you last day at Twitter pic.twitter.com/gooY9YXKgB
— Alan Parker (@AlanLondonCity) November 3, 2017
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