{"id":1558,"date":"2017-11-03T04:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2017-11-13T19:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:47:54","slug":"twitter-inc-deactivates-trumps-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/twitter-inc-deactivates-trumps-twitter-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Inc “Deactivates” Trump\u2019s Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"
Twitter unplugs Trump, Twitter-in-chief<\/p>\n
Nov 3, 2017: U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was \u201cinadvertently deactivated\u201d due to human error by a Twitter Inc employee on Thursday.<\/p>\n
A rogue Twitter employee shut down Donald Trump\u2019s account. The Trump Twitter account was shut down by employee on his last day of work<\/p>\n
The account of the American leader that political opponents deride as Twitter-in-chief, was down for 11 minutes before it was restored, the social media company said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer-support employee who did this on the employee\u2019s last day. We are conducting a full internal review,\u201d Twitter said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,\u201d the company said in an earlier tweet.<\/p>\n
A Twitter representative declined to comment further.<\/p>\n
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Trump has made extensive use of messages on Twitter to attack his opponents and promote his policies both during the 2016 presidential campaign and since taking office in January.<\/p>\n
He has 41.7 million followers on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat Tax Cut rollout today.<\/p>\n
The lobbyists are storming Capital Hill, but the Republicans will hold strong and do what is right for America!\u201d he wrote in his first tweet after Thursday\u2019s outage.<\/p>\n
In a similar incident last November, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey\u2019s account was briefly suspended as a result of what he said was an internal mistake.<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter unplugs Trump, Twitter-in-chief Nov 3, 2017: U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was \u201cinadvertently deactivated\u201d due to human error by a Twitter Inc employee on Thursday. A rogue Twitter employee shut down Donald Trump\u2019s account. The Trump Twitter account was shut down by employee on his last day of work The account of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n