A German man has come forward as the former Twitter Inc employee who shut down the account of U.S. President Donald Trump for 11 minutes this month on his last day of work at the social network. The technology news website TechCrunch published an interview on Wednesday with Bahtiyar Duysak, whom it called a 20-something with Turkish roots who was born and raised in Germany. He was a temporary contract worker in San Francisco for Twitter, the website said. Near the end of his last day at the San Francisco-based company, an alert came to him that someone had reported Trump's account for an unspecified violation, he said. Duysak put the wheels in motion to deactivate it, TechCrunch said, although the account did not go offline until hours later.

Source: The Hindu November 30, 2017 03:44 UTC