Trump's Twitter account briefly vanishes, human error blamed | Inquirer Technology

Trump’s Twitter account briefly vanishes, human error blamed

/ 08:46 AM November 03, 2017

United States President Donald Trump’s well-known Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday evening – with the social media company blaming “human error by a Twitter employee.”

Visitors to @realDonaldTrump around 7:00 pm (2300 GMT) were greeted with the message “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

“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,” the official Twitter Government account said.

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“We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,” it added.

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The outspoken US president has 41.7 million followers on his personal Twitter account, from which he blasts his most controversial and attention-grabbing comments, which were often in the form of early morning “tweetstorms.”

Trump’s official White House account, @POTUS, which has 20.9 million followers, was apparently not affected.

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Trump did not tweet about his account’s vanishing act, but after it was restored made a post about his party’s tax plan. /kga

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