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The President of the United States of America lost the crucial ability to Tweet [nytimes.com] for an 11 minute timespan on Thursday, following the temporary deactivation of his Twitter account by a Twitter employee who was being let go by the company. The incident has raised questions about the safeguards in place for high-profile Twitter users:
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a deleted Twitter account. At least, so it appeared for 11 minutes Thursday evening, when visitors to President Trump's personal account, @realDonaldTrump, were informed that there was no such thing.
[...] Amid a presidency that has seemed, at times, to be conducted primarily in 140-character pieces, this was a seismic event — and what was left of Twitter erupted. It was a raucous, modern-day town-square gathering of the sort not seen since ... well, since five months ago, when Mr. Trump coined a new word [nytimes.com] in the middle of the night.
[...] The answer, revealed three hours later, was something straight out of "Office Space." After saying in an initial statement [twitter.com] that the account had been "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," Twitter announced [twitter.com] that a rogue customer support worker had done it on his or her last day at the company.
Previously: Twitter Shadowbans Republican Frontrunner [soylentnews.org]
Twitter Co-founder: I'm Sorry if We Made Trump's Presidency Possible [soylentnews.org]