Company initially blamed human error for @realdonaldtrump account’s 11-minute outage but then revealed it was done by worker on final day in jobA Twitter employee deactivated Donald Trump’s personal account on their last day of work, the company said on Thursday, likely meaning the action was deliberate. The move by the employee – who has not been named – meant that the president’s @realdonaldtrump account was down for 11 minutes. Read moreAfter widespread speculation about what had happened, Twitter initially said the account had been inadvertently deactivated “due to human error by a Twitter employee”. “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. Before Twitter’s statement, some speculated that Trump himself may have deactivated his account or he may have been hacked.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 00:01 UTC