A customer support employee deleted Donald Trump's Twitter account on their last day on the job

Twitter Admits an Employee Deleted Donald Trump's Account on Their Final Day on the Job

A Twitter employee allegedly decided to leave the company with a bang.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump‘s Twitter account was shut down and the social media company has put the blame on by an employee who was working their last day.

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For eleven minutes at 7 p.m. ET, people searching for the commander-in-chief’s Twitter account only encountered a bright blue page that read, “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!” The account has about 41.7 million Twitter followers.

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Twitter’s Government and Elections team tweeted about the error, first blaming it on “human error,” then saying it was due to a rogue employee who used their last day at the company to delete the president’s account.

“Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” Twitter’s first tweet 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.”

In a second tweet, the company said they were “conducting a full internal review” after realizing Trump’s blackout was caused by a Twitter customer support employee.

Several people shared their thoughts of the incident on Twitter.

It was not immediately clear which vetting program Trump was referring to and White House officials had no comment when asked to explain.

The Washington Post reported that Trump was likely referring to the U.S. government’s vetting programs for foreign nationals, as opposed to his controversial travel ban, which applies to only seven Muslim-majority nations.