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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."
How many other accounts have simply been disappeared by a twitter employee that didn't like the account that never got noticed and remained deleted because they weren't the President of the US?
Where your data can get deleted by a click of a button by a disgruntled employee and even the fucking president of the United States can't be spared nor can his data be restored in less than 11 minutes.
Imagine if you weren't the president, would they even care?
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Shame they didn't roll with the deletion for a few days.
Mango Moron's childish hysterics would only intensify as he takes up residence on gab, or dare I say, voat.
Itâ(TM)s a âoerouge employeeâ this time, it will be a deputized officer of the twitter thought police next time.
Unemployment lowest since 2000!
Stock market at record highs!
Amazing how the Obama "recovery" finally started once Obama left office....
Maybe Obama's leftist attempt at "remaking" the US economy was a failure?
Ask Venezuelans about that, comrade!
Constant Trump bashing.
Constant AGW bullshit.
No wonder most people have left this once excellent site.
Hopefully throwing away probably thousands of dollars in university tuition and years of training was worth it for 15 minutes of tabloid fame, in their eyes.
Another victim of martyr culture I suppose.
Silicon Valley is out of touch.
According to almost every employment agreement I've seen, the now EX employee is liable, possibly even criminally for sabotage
If racist, repressive, reactionary accounts are deleted, what's wrong with that?
Shouldn't communication monopolies be subjected to common-carrier regulations to prevent them from abusing peoples' free-speech rights?
What we've discovered is that Twitter CSRs can whack any account whenever they want, for whatever reason they want. They have no real oversight whatsoever, so when this juvy decided to do something they just did it and left the building.
Besides being an asshole move, it shows a distinct lack of internal controls.
Twitter was a company that was born by accident. The technology was a side project that took off on its own. The four founders were more interested in playing musical chair with the CEO spot. The revenue model came years after burning through VC funding. One founder pulled a Steve Jobs by quoting Steve Jobs, listening to the music that Steve Jobs liked, dressing up in a Steve Jobs uniform (same clothes, simple style), and staging a Steve Jobs comeback after starting another company. Mark Zuckerburg called Twitter a clown car that fell into a gold mine. Deleting the president's account? Just another day at Twitter.
Source: "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal"
Was it the employee's last day before or after they deleted the account? Hah...
It would have been much more effective if they'd banned the account for violating TOS rather than deleting it.
It would have been a bit more embarrassing for Twitter to handle, and I'm guessing the reason it took only 11 minutes to notice was some notification system that was triggered when a billion hits went to the same dead link. Maybe if the site had been serving up a banned user message, it would have taken longer to notice.
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Remember, these are the people who think they're smarter than everyone else...
This is the $64,000 question right here. Twitter has been actively censoring viewpoints they don't like and there is literally no oversight. 1984 memory holes are alive and well at Twitter.
And why do any of you give a rat's ass?
It's a business - not the government. They have no obligation to freedom of speech or any other freedoms.
That's what none of you are getting. If anyone thinks that Twitter, reddit, Slashdot, facebook or whatever has a legal obligation to free speech, you are horribly misinformed.
It's possible that the employee was doing their job by deleting that account. What if people had reported that days "Bring back the DEATH PENALTY!" tweet on grounds of it being "Threatening harm to others"?
Did the employee get told it was their last day before or after the deletion ? :-) That person has now probably just got themselves a range of job offers for life however...
Sometimes there's a man, I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man and he's the man for his time and place.
His approval rating would probably rise if they did.
I neither voted for the guy, nor am I a "nevertrumper"; I think he's unfairly maligned much of the time (sometimes he deserves it too), but a lot of his tweets are ridiculous.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
One person has that level of access at a company the size of Twitter??
No approval process? No review process?
Wow. Are they operating in a garage ?
One of the elite media who always bashed tech for "sexism" but now it turns out is packed with gropers and rapists? Fuck. Off.
The amazing part of this episode is that Twitter discovered the disgruntled employee's action and rectified it in 11 minutes. How did they find out so quickly? Either the employee bragged or the action set off a trip wire, meaning that particular account was closely monitored by Twitter. I doubt that even the White House would be able to get Twitter to act so quickly once POTUS or his staff discovered that the account was broken.
They're just like the Maquisards in WW2!
Trumps' twitter account being deleted would be a huge gift to the Republican Party.
our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day
Was it the employee's last day before they deleted Trump's account?
Twitter is kind of a ghetto, and the President's presence on the platform is one of the few things keeping it going. God help them if they ever ban him or he leaves.
for the last time, he was overheard quoting Dickens:
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
They got lucky that the person was smart enough to not delete the account. There are plenty of political radicals in SV that would have not been so rational. Since the threat of firing was already gone, the only way Twitter can punish them now is to publicly name the person who did this. That is also a good way to make it clear to other employees that if they follow in this person's footsteps, Twitter will not hesitate to nuke them in defense of its interests and users.
Like it or not, Trump is not just some user. He is almost a full blown asset with a monetary value to Twitter because he drives so much user engagement. Had the person deleted the account, Trump would have had a few options. One of which is Twitter's nightmare: move to Gab. Right now, Gab only has a few hundred thousand users and the neo-Nazis retards have a loud and proud presence there. I can guarantee you that if this SJW had deleted the account, Gab would have grown at least an order of magnitude within a few days. With 90 days, it would probably have at least 5M, if not 10M, users. Twitter would have also lost a huge source of engagement which would drive the conversations there down even further.
If Twitter management cares about shareholders (we know they don't, as Dorsey is still in charge), they'll take swift and brutal action against this person and their career.
Oh, deleting accounts of blacks and gays is acceptable? I seem to remember a recent court case about a wedding cake for a gay wedding that LEGALLY decided differently.
Good to know racism and sexism is ok, as long as you are a private company. Thanks for sticking up for racists!
Oh, deleting accounts of blacks and gays is acceptable? I seem to remember a recent court case about a wedding cake for a gay wedding that LEGALLY decided differently.
Good to know racism and sexism is ok, as long as you are a private company. Thanks for sticking up for racists!
Yes, I will stick up for racists. One has every right to be a racist, bigot or whatever. They have a right to speak their mind. But we also have the right to not listen to him - to censor him: tell him to get off of private property for instance, like a website.
Now, does the racist have a right to walk into a synagogue and start pontificating of the evils of Jews? Nope.
Does Twitter or any other media outlet have to allow the Nazi to share his views? Nope.
Do you have a right to tell him to STFU? Yep.
Does the government have a right to tell him to STFU? Nope.
Who said it's your data? Have you read the TOS you agreed on?
Whatever this employee worked out recently, Twitter will no longer be a reference for future job searches. Oh well.
But I'm sure now whenever someone has "Twitter" on their resume, they will be asked "You aren't the CSR that deleted Trump's account out of anger on your last day of work, were you?"
If this employee just started a new job or will be starting on Monday, I'm guessing the employment offer might get withdrawn. That's just BAD customer service and I wouldn't want a loose cannon like that working for me.
Twitter is probably considered a "Public" means of communications (or a public utility). Just like the telephone -- Telecomms can't drop access just because they don't like people or what the people stand for or say. The Federal Government has state many, many times that a business can't discriminate based on laws that are not part of the USA Constitution. Such as, Real Estate Agents/Realtors, Hotels and other Accommodations, "public" convenance, Medical businesses (doctors, hospitals, clinics), Bakeries, etc., etc. It is not a stretch of any sort to expect that USA Constitutional rights would apply to Twitter -- especially when it affects Political Speech! Political Speech is the most protected type of speech that there is under the USA Constitution. The US Supreme Courts has spent decades (and centuries) defining "free speech" and the other parts of the First Amendment. You don't get to redefine what they say. You do get your own options. But it's only your opinion.
Somebody 'accidentally' deleted the US President's twitter account and nobody at Twitter was paying attention? Beggars believability. Prolly did it for the publicity and the employee'll wind up with a bonus paid by Clinton Foundation (put this in for the tin hat folks). For those of you celebrating these gaffs and feeling oh so vindicated... Get over it - election's over, the left is corrupt and eating itself, and DJT's tweets are at least not a bunch of obsequious platitudes. Or would you rather be lectured by Dr. Obama for another 4 years about how entitled you are, oh wait, you probably would...
> the president's personal account kicked back the error message "does not exist."
Cannot help but think: "...and nothing of value was lost."
Give that (wo)man a medal! Hmm, actually, a gofundme. Really.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
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.
A real American making sure Putin's little bitch is reminded of who he really is.
What if an LGBTQ Nazi wants to announce their marriage over Twitter? Wouldn't that be discrimination? If they can get a baker to make them a cake (and that's been established on slashdot as correct), then why wouldn't they be able to force twitter to make them a tweet.
Being a business in America means operating in the public square which means you can't be against anything liberals are for cause they'll sue you.
Thank you, kind hero, for 11 minutes of calm peace and quiet. This will go down in history as the second best moment of Trump's presidency, after the lulztastic childish temper tantrum that will ensue when he gets impeached late next year.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
This is manufactured drama.
>> this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day.
Was it their last day before they did it?
(Posting anon to keep mods.) Because in the US, we have laws against discrimination. Depending on where you are, there are certain rules. In most states, you aren't allowed to refuse service based on race, religion, sex, orientation. Also performing a service does not mean you support/approve/agree with them.
It's a business - not the government.
It's a business that provides services to agencies of the United States Government. The law holds government contractors to a higher standard than other private sector businesses.
Leave it to the right to bitch about the left supposedly lauding "childishness", while electing a man-child at the highest position in the United States who posts tweet after tweet after tweet of the most childish nonsense.
Pot, meet kettle.
Twitter unconscionably restricts users's free speech to fewer than 255 characters. We demand the full 8-bit width of a one-byte length descriptor.
Individual characters in Tweets are from a set larger than 255, <cough>unlike on Slashdot...</cough>
...of butthurt cocksuckers who think THEY are the arbiter of Free Speech and that THEY have the right to squelch speech they disagree with.
No doubt this piece of shit will be participating in the next Antifa riot where they engage in fascist suppression of speech in an effort to "fight fascism".
Sayfullo Saipov should have chosen an Antifa rally that blocked a street during Rush hour.
The White House's @POTUS account is a government contract. President Trump's personal account (@realDonaldTrump) is de facto a government contract to the extent that @POTUS is largely composed of Retweets from @realDonaldTrump. When @realDonaldTrump was briefly deactivated, half the Tweets on @POTUS became unavailable during that time.
But couldn't he have deleted *Trump*, not just his twitter account?
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Why start out on such a judgmental note?
Have gnu, will travel.
From what I've heard (I don't use so-called 'social media' of any kind, not for at least 10 years now) Trump's account on Twitter should have been deleted a long time ago for violation of Terms of Service (hate speech, etc) and it certainly should be deleted now for posting 'fake news' and 'alternative facts' (read as: PROPAGANDA). Of course the downside to that would be the American people wouldn't have daily reminders of what a jackass he is, since he proves that on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis, with practically every single 'tweet'.
You should follow their example, it would raise the S/N ratio a little.
This treasonous fuck should be EXECUTED immediately, along with Shillary!!!
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Not the hero we deserved, but the one that we needed. For 11 minutes the orange fucktard was gone...
I was hoping this was some anti-Doomsday mechanism designed to allow smarter minds a chance to get him to retract a bad tweet that could set off WWIII, kinda like the 5 second delay on the SuperBowl that protects us from other tits. Now I find it's just a disgruntled Twitter employee.
What if during those 11 minutes, Trump was coked out of his gourd as usual and about to tweet something that would lead to WWIII? The employee could have just averted the end of the word.
There, fixed it for you.
should be deleted. Serves him right.
Well, go ahead and kick the man for treating everyone the same. Oh, that was the President's twitter account? What was he doing on Twitter, FFS.
Hmm, do we have evidence that Twitter has ever been used for "communications"?
Suppose someone would have deleted Hitler's Twitter account. They would've been a hero now. Oh wait...
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.
Some scientists are now suggesting that there are other news organizations that will tell you the same corporate-friendly, pro-war, anti-American (America the theory, the ideal of individual freedom, not America the ESTABLISHMENT, they're pro-establishment,) such as MSNBC, for example.
Of course, if you want real, actual news, news that ISN'T slanted (or completely missing when not reporting on something is) in favor of the interests of their corporate MASTERS, you might consider news that is VIEWER-SUPPORTED instead?
You might consider Democracy Now, for instance, or The Young Turks Network, as just a couple examples. Actually, they also do sometimes go on about Trump and his nonsense, but at least you'll have the full context when you get your news from these and similar sources, and in the case of the Young Turks, they do manage to make the nightmare that is having Trump be "president" (hahaha) more bearable by pointing out what a miserable, petulant, stupid, incompetent CHILD he is.
Visit democracynow.org, tytnetwork.com if you're interested, and care to know what is actually going on.
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
I don't believe it was a human error for a moment, simply because it is unrealistic that any Twitter employee would even remotely be looking at President Trump's data. What are the damn odds that this was just done inadvertently? Twitter does have a political bias itself, so I don't doubt that a cover up (however minor it is) is going to occur.
That employee had no business being there at all.
That employee likely should be fired. This isn't some employee curious and hit the wrong button on some celebrity that she was interested in. This is someone that deleted the account of the President because of her political agenda and/or she wanted to be a footnote in history.
I'm saying she because we so often just assume it was a "he" so it is only equal to assume "she" now. You don't have to be a "he" to be dangerous in today's world.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
You mean the one the RUPUBLICANS bought first but decided at delivery time they didn't want it anymore? That one? Yeah, they actually DID report about it.
Then again, trump's twats are official presidential missives when they want and those twats of a private citizen when they want that instead, so maybe the use of twitter is less important than you feel.
"Wishing that everyone had access to food, shelter, and healthcare" makes you a LEFTIST if interpreted as you clearly meant it.
Everybody (in the US anyway) has ACCESS to those things - they just need to pay for them. Every creature in nature must work constantly to obtain the food water and shelter it needs to continue living. You almost certainly did not mean you needed "access" to those things but rather that you wish everybody had those actual things given to them, whether they worked to earne them or not.
A classical "liberal" cares about the rights and freedoms of individuals in the face of government. Most people in the US who have been self-identifying as "liberals" since about the time of the 1968 DNC convention are actually big fans of massive government running rough-shod all over the rights of pesky little individuals as long as that massive government is taking money from some people at confiscatory rates and handing it out to others to buy their obedience and their votes or that massive government is being used to ram some "progressive" social or political egenda down the throats of political opponents. That's NOT "liberal" at all but rather "leftist" and depending upon intensity may even be "jack-booted leftist"
Incidentally, "wishing that DJT would stop tweeting" guarantees that you are NOT a classical "liberal", who in an earlier era would have said that he disagreed with possibly everything DJT tweeted but would defend to the death his right to tweet.
This person should get an award for reducing the noise on Twitter!
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
Your post is sharp with daggers. Reduce them.
Be civil.