President Trump's Twitter Account Was Deactivated For A Few Minutes Thursday Night

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.

— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017

ABC News: Trump's Twitter account briefly 'inadvertently deactivated' by Twitter employee, company says

The Twittersphere lit up Thursday night when President Donald Trump's Twitter account was briefly deactivated -- an action "inadvertently" caused by a Twitter employee, the social media company said.

"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" was the message that greeted visitors to Trump's Twitter page, @RealDonaldTrump, for eleven minutes around 7 p.m. ET.

The president has 41.7 million Twitter followers.

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More News On President Trump's Twitter Account Being Deactivated For A Few Minutes Thursday Night

Twitter says Trump's account 'inadvertently deactivated' by Twitter employee -- Reuters
Twitter: Employee ‘inadvertently’ deactivated Trump’s account -- The Hill
Eleven Minutes on Twitter: '@realDonaldTrump Does Not Exist' -- New York Times
For 11 minutes, Trump's Twitter account was deactivated because of 'human error' -- Washington Post
Twitter takes responsibility for Trump Twitter outage -- AP
Twitter claims worker 'inadvertently deactivated' Trump's account -- The Guardian
Trump's Twitter account goes down due to employee 'error' -- FOX News

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