A Twitter customer support employee deactivated President Donald Trump's account on their last day on the job, the company announced Thursday.
For 11 minutes around 7 p.m. ET, people visiting Trump's Twitter account received a message that the page didn't exist.
The company initially announced shortly after 8 p.m. that it was "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee," adding it was continuing to investigate and taking steps to prevent such an incident from happening again.
Then, at 10 p.m., it stated a customer support employee disabled Trump's account on "the employee's last day," suggesting whoever it was went out with a bang.
"Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day. We are conducting a full internal review," the Twitter Government account tweeted.
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.
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
Twitter did not identify the employee.
Trump has more than 41 million Twitter followers and frequently employs the social media platform to make statements—sometimes inflammatory ones—about his administration, policies, opponents and allies.