Update 2:
Twitter has released a second statement, saying they are conducting a full internal review after their investigation determined President Trump's Twitter account was deactivated by an employee on their last day with the company.
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
Update:
Twitter has released a statement through one of their verified accounts, saying that Donald Trump's Twitter account was "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee."
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
Original story:
President Donald Trump's Twitter account, @RealDonaldTrump, briefly went offline.
When searching for his Twitter handle, users were redirected to a page saying, "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"
Reports say the account was down anywhere from 5 to 24 minutes.
Twitter users were confused as to what could have caused the brief account takedown.
Wow I left twitter for 5 minutes and Trump's account was gone and then came back
— Kate Beckman (@Kate_Beckman) November 2, 2017
Trump’s Twitter account went down for like 1 minute and Twitter freaked out. Was that a test?
— Julie Bort (@Julie188) November 2, 2017
I'm not usually a person who covers the president's tweets. But. Um.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) November 2, 2017
Unclear what's happening with Trump's personal Twitter account. It appears to be offline at the moment. Asking White House... pic.twitter.com/U1Q3tB98Cn
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) November 2, 2017
I survived the Trump twitter outage
November 2, 2017
6:58PM to 7:04PM #neverforget
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 2, 2017
Other users took the opportunity to take a few jabs.
@jack I need to very seriously tell you that the 70 seconds that Trump's twitter account went away were the happiest 70 seconds of my year.
— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) November 2, 2017
me hearing someone say donald trump's twitter account is down: pic.twitter.com/kE2CjsNycD
— Monica Patel (@monicapatel917) November 2, 2017
Wow, what an exhilarating time to be alive. I will forever cherish those beautiful 5 minutes when Trump did not have a twitter account.
— 🗿Kevin Ghoul🗿 (@kevindotcole) November 2, 2017
Well-played, President Trump! Welcome back.
Trump's Twitter pic.twitter.com/CfNFNLgkbz
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) November 2, 2017
Not knowing if Trump's Twitter account had been deleted was a wild 5 minutes that we all endured together.
— Ally Roche (@AllyRoche) November 2, 2017
