{"id":433790,"date":"2017-11-03T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/03\/twitter-employee-takes-down-trump-account\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T08:20:49","slug":"twitter-employee-takes-down-trump-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/03\/twitter-employee-takes-down-trump-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter employee takes down Trump account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday, but has since been restored, the social media company has said.<\/p>\n<p>It said that the <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\">@realdonaldtrump<\/a> account was \u201cdeactivated\u201d by an employee, later clarifying that it was their last day in the job.<\/p>\n<p>The account was down for 11 minutes, and Twitter is now investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump \u2013 who is an active Twitter user with 41.7 million followers \u2013 has not commented on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest incident has touched off debate over the security of the president\u2019s account, given the potential consequences of posts falsely attributed to Mr Trump being published.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">\u2018Full internal review\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday evening, visitors to Mr Trump\u2019s page for a short time could only see a message that read \u201cSorry, that page doesn\u2019t exist!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the account was restored, Mr Trump\u2019s first tweet was about the Republican Party\u2019s tax cuts plan.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\">@POTUS<\/a>, the official account of the US president, was unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it was investigating the problem and taking steps to avoid it happening again.<\/p>\n<p>It later said <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterGov\/status\/926267806261407744\">in a tweet<\/a>: \u201cThrough our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee\u2019s last day. We are conducting a full internal review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump joined Twitter in March 2009 and he has tweeted more than 36,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>He has been actively using the social media platform to promote his policies and also attack his political opponents both during the presidential campaign in 2016 and since taking office in January.<\/p>\n<p>In one interview he said that when someone says something about him, he is able to go \u201cbing, bing, bing on Twitter\u201d \u2013 and take care of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<div class=\"bsac bsac-clearfix bsac-post-bottom bsac-float-center bsac-align-center bsac-column-1\">\n<div id=\"bsac-268363-1765770216\" class=\"bsac-container bsac-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"268363\" data-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bsac-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/newmont_beyondmind92870.gif\" alt=\"Homepage Header Ad\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1136575713042949\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>\n\t\t\t(function () {<\/p>\n<p>    function appendFbScript() {\n        var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk',\n            fjs = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];<\/p>\n<p>        if (document.getElementById(id)) return;\n        js = document.createElement('script');\n        js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=298184353996497&version=v2.0\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<\/p>\n<p>        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                appId: '298184353996497',\n                xfbml: true,\n                version: 'v2.0'\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.create', function (comment_data) {\n                console.log(comment_data);\n                update_comments_count();\n            });\n            FB.Event.subscribe('comment.remove', function (comment_data) {\n                update_comments_count();\n            });<\/p>\n<p>            function update_comments_count(comment_data, comment_action) {\n                jQuery.ajax({\n                        type: 'GET',\n                        dataType: 'json',\n                        url: 'http:\/\/starrfmonline.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php',\n                        data: {\n                            action: 'clear_better_facebook_comments',\n                            post_id: '272851'\n                        },\n                        success: function (data) {\n                            \/\/ todo sync comments count here! data have the counts\n                        },\n                        error: function (i, b) {\n                            \/\/ todo\n                        }\n                    }\n                )\n            };\n        };<\/p>\n<p>        appendFbScript();\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    appendFbScript();<\/p>\n<p>})();\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday, but has since been restored, the social media company has said. 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