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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."
Nothing gets deleted in the true sense. It's flagged to be hidden. If you're one of the many agencies or advertisers with API access to twitter, FB, Google, Apple accounts, you'll see everything ever posted even if the account holder cannot.
From what I saw it wasn't deleted, it was deactivated so history and stuff should remain. also explains how it was back up in 11 minutes.
Restored in 11 minutes no less. Anecdotally, it usually takes weeks. Try that trick if you aren't POTUS.
Particularly if your profile is full of name-calling and threats like his is. Good luck.
Oh... FFS... blacks and lgbts are protected classes. Businesses can't discriminate based on protected classes. They can discriminate based on anyone's opinion though. They can ban people because they're spouting hate speech regardless of race or sexual orientation.
Donald Trump is not a race. At least not yet.
Twitter is probably considered a "Public" means of communications (or a public utility). Just like the telephone...
Common carrier is the legal term you're looking for. Yes, megatechs guard that status jealously, it helps keep employee costs down.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
...coastal liberals, they make my day.
Wishing that DJT would stop tweeting does not make me a liberal. Wishing that everyone had access to food, shelter, and healthcare makes me a liberal.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.