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Donald Trump has tweeted triumphantly after his Twitter account was restored following an 11-minute outage.

A disgruntled employee of the social media giant deactivated the US President's feed on their last day in the job.

Now Trump has responded - saying it shows his politics is "having an impact".

He tweeted: "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."

He then immediately returned to tweeting about "crooked Hillary" Clinton.

The President's personal account @realDonaldTrump showed a message which read 'Sorry that page doesn't exist!'

The error message is usually for accounts that have been deleted, rather than suspended by Twitter.

The news spread rapidly on the social media network where Trump has arguably become the most influential tweeter in the world.

But just as users were beginning to speculate what might have happened, the account came back within a matter of minutes.

In a message posted a short time later, Twitter explained that Trump's account vanished as a result of "human error".

"Earlier today @realdonaldtrump 's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," the statement said.

"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."

A later post added: "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."

When the truth emerged, the rogue employee was quickly hailed a hero.