For 11 beautiful minutes
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President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, @realdonaldtrump, disappeared from the site for around five beautiful minutes shortly before 7PM ET. It was not initially clear what happened to the account, and Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In an tweet issued by Twitter’s Government and Elections team, the company blamed “human error” on behalf of an unnamed Twitter employee:
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. 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.
During that brief time period, the president was unable to tweet insults, boasts, odd syntax, or misinformation about terrorism.
People were into it.
@jack I need to very seriously tell you that the 70 seconds that Trump's twitter account went away were the happiest 70 seconds of my year.
Aaaaaand @realDonaldTrump is back.
eh, well that's over pic.twitter.com/56HEZ8xMh6
There have been ongoing calls for Twitter to ban Trump over tweets that critics said could be interpreted as calls to violence. Twitter has said that it would enforce the same rules for Trump as it does for other accounts.
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Other critics have questioned the basic security of Trump’s account, noting that he continues to tweet from an Android phone that may be liable to hacking. My former colleague Adrianne Jeffries suggested the account may have been hacked:
Yet it was not a hack, but the work of a lone Twitter employee supposedly with the power to deactivate individual accounts at will, even those managed hot-tempered heads of state.
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