Twitter employee goes rogue, deactivates Trump’s account

An employee of the company went rogue on Thursday evening and deactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account, leading to alarming questions about the integrity of the platform that the U.S President routinely uses to announce policy and even threaten war.

Mr. Trump’s account, @realdonaldtrump disappeared at around 6:45 p.m. in Washington on Thursday, and visitors to the page could only see the message, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist.”

Mr. Trump said the deactivation was a reaction to the “impact” of this Twitter presence. “My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact,” the President said in a post on Friday morning. He has 41.8 million followers on the platform.

My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017