Twitter initially said the account had been "inadvertently deactivated due to human error", but later indicated it was done intentionally by a departing worker. The outspoken president has 41.7 million followers on his personal Twitter account, which he uses to blast controversial and attention-grabbing comments. The outage sparked discussion of the security of Trump's account, given the potentially dire consequences of messages falsely attributed to the president. - Security concerns -"It is shocking that some random Twitter employee could shut down the president's account. "Liberals were celebrating for the 15 minutes that Trump's Twitter disappeared, proving once again they love censorship and hate free speech," one popular tweet read.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 03, 2017 06:45 UTC