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Twitter investigates brief deactivation of Trump’s account

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Social media giants Twitter are investigating the brief deactivation of US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account @realdonaldtrump which went down for 11 minutes.

On Thursday evening, visitors to Mr Trump’s page for a short time could only see a message that read “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

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Twitter said they are looking into the matter after confirming that Trump’s account was “deactivated” by an employee, later clarifying that it was their last day in the job.

It later said in a tweet: “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. We are conducting a full internal review.”

Mr Trump – who is an active Twitter user with 41.7 million followers – has not commented on the issue.

 

 

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