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President Trump’s Twitter Account Went Dark Temporarily

HUH?

Twitter says the page was deactivated “due to human error by a Twitter employee.”

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President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was accidentally deactivated for a short time on Thursday evening, the social media platform said. The page displayed a message saying, “Sorry, that page does not exist!” The president’s Twitter account was later restored after being down for 11 minutes. In a statement, Twitter said the account was “inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” adding: “We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.”