Donald Trump, spray tan aficionado and erstwhile President of the United States (POTUS), is fond of an ill-tempered Twitter rant or three – much to the chagrin of ordinary social media users all around the world. For a few brief moments earlier today, though, it seemed like justice had been restored, as a ‘rogue’ Twitter employee took it upon themselves to delete Trump’s preferred social media klaxon.
You read that right: for a brief but glorious few moments, Donald Trump was unable to tweet from his personal @realDonaldTrump account. His removal from the microblogging platform was all too short – he was offline for a total of 11 minutes, but boy were people happy about it.
Save this image & send tweet it to Trump 24/7 Then nominate that Twitter employee for a Nobel Peace Prize ✌️
"And the world will be as one" pic.twitter.com/7H2FuYlCJ0— MamaKeiki 月亮花 ❤️🔺❤️ Multiracial Multicultural (@MamaKeiki) November 3, 2017
It’s understood that the Twitter employee in question was on their last day, so as well as regarding their actions as a heroic act of vigilanteism, it’s also worth mentioning that it’s one hell of a PR stunt by the person in question.
Out there is a prospective employer who'll read a CV containing the phrase 'at my last job I shut down Trump's Twitter'.
YOU'RE HIRED!
— Simon Pegg (@Simon_Pegg) November 3, 2017
Twitter, of course, has been keen to distance itself from the “human error” and says it will be conducting a “full internal review” to prevent similar incidents occurring in the future.
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
Whatever steps the social media giant sees fit to take, it’s unlikely to match the impact Trump’s brief Twitter downtime had on the internet – whoever did this is basically drinking for free for the rest of their life.
In true Trump fashion, America’s 45th President was back at his keyboard in double quick-time, reassuring the masses that he was unharmed by this morning’s shocking events.
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
That 11 minutes, though? It’ll be the best 11 minutes most of us have fully clothed for quite some time.
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