Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org)

A reader shares an NPR report: With the push of a button, an employee at Twitter accomplished for a brief few minutes on Thursday what President Trump's closest advisors have reportedly been trying unsuccessfully to do for months: shut down the seemingly never-ending tweet stream at @realDonaldTrump. Perhaps it was an act of civil disobedience, or maybe just a "take this job and shove it" moment, but shortly before 7 p.m., the president's personal account kicked back the error message "does not exist." By 7:03 p.m., it was up and running again and within about a half-hour, new presidential tweets were forthcoming. The folks at Twitter leapt into action to find out what had happened: "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," the company said in a statement. Two hours later, the company said, "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."

Comments

Re:Are all the editors on Slashdot liberal SJW's?

[serviscope_minor]

Is rather be like the "intolerant" antifa than what they stand against.

The Nazis hate black people, brown people, Jews, Muslims, gay people, transsexuals, women, foreigners and so on.

Antifa hate the Nazis.

Those are not equivalent.

Re:The REAL question is

[chispito]

No, the real question is why they restored it so quickly. I would have loved having a week or two without having to hear about the latest Trump rant on CNN.

Then don't watch CNN.

Re:What's wrong with that?

[AmiMoJo]

Indeed. The poor triggered free speech warriors have already tagged this story with "censorship". People need to keep some perspective, not everything is a conspiracy against the 1st Amendment and Donald J. Trump.