What will you do on your last day of work? ? Well, a Twitter employee did what Twitter has refused to do for months which is to deactivate the Twitter account of President Donald Trump-@realdonaldtrump. The action was clearly deliberate. The account was down for 11 minutes.
This led to speculation that Twitter has finally suspended @realdonaldtrump. On Twitter’s part, they initially said the account had been inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee.
In a statement, Twitter tweeted: “The 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.”
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.
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
Soon after, Twitter released another statement confirming that the deactivation was due to an employee’s action on their final day in the job.
“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,” the new statement said.
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
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
And Twitter users have praised the employee while encouraging the social network to make it permanent.
Give that employee a raise!!
— Effy Gee (@TheObamaphile) November 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/yridea/status/926240065067532288
https://twitter.com/harveywalker/status/926240094805266438
No need to investigate the matter. Can you make it happen again? For the sake of humanity, leave the acct. down!
— Darlene (@MDarleneI) November 3, 2017
We should all bow our heads in thanks to the brave hero who sacrificed themself to give us 11 minutes of peace and a modicum of hope. ty 👊
— Jen Q (@thedogearedbook) November 3, 2017
There have been continuing calls for Twitter to suspend Trump’s account. However, it has refused to suspend the account. For now, the romantic love between Twitter and Trump continues.
Expectedly, Donald Trump has responded to the deliberate deactivation of his Twitter account describing the worker as a rogue employee.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/926401530013642765
Well, well….it is Donald Trump!
