The Twittersphere lit up Thursday night when President Donald Trump‘s Twitter account was briefly deactivated — an action “inadvertently” caused by a Twitter employee, the social media company said.
“Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!” was the message that greeted visitors to Trump’s Twitter page, @RealDonaldTrump, for eleven minutes around 7 p.m. ET.
The president has 41.7 million Twitter followers.
Twitter said in a statement, “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.”
Not surprisingly, the chattering classes jumped at the opportunity to share their thoughts on the commander in chief — and they were not particularly kind.
November 2, 2017
6:58PM to 7:04PM #neverforget
