Mike Snider

USA TODAY

#Whoops!

Here's an interesting social media faux pas: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his own Twitter account suspended late Tuesday.

Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter a decade ago and returned as CEO last year, posted this tweet Tuesday: "just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)."

That's a play on the social network's first tweet, which he posted in March 2006: "just setting up my twttr."

The event is ironic in that the Twitter has recently suspended many accounts associated with the alt-right movement, a loosely organized group that supports white supremism and white nationalism. Last week, Dorsey also apologized when an advertisement for a white supremacist group appeared on the service. Tiwtter took it down within an hour, the company said.

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Upon learning that Dorsey's account had been suspended, tech media sites had some fun at his and Twitter's cost.

"#Awkward," read a headline on CNET. It noted that Dorsey, who had more than 4 million followers, upon reinstatement had less than 150. On Wednesday morning that number was at 1.67 million.

"Twitter fail," said Digital Trends in its headline.

In its story, TechCrunch included a tweet from its ex-writer Drew Olanoff, who spotted the situation about 9 p.m. ET. Dorsey's suspension follows another social media flub from earlier this month, the site noted: Facebook's pronouncing of the death of CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a multitude of other users with a memorial note on users' pages.

What's next? Here's hoping our Instagram and Snapchat accounts don't start randomly spamming unpublished smartphone photos and videos.

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