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Twitter employee 'deactivated' Trump account on last day

World Materials 3 November 2017 12:43 (UTC +04:00)
US President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday but has since been restored
Twitter employee 'deactivated' Trump account on last day

US President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday but has since been restored, the social media company said, BBC NEWS reports.

An employee deactivated the @realdonaldtrump account, it said, clarifying that it had been their last day in the job.

The account was down for 11 minutes and Twitter is now investigating.

Tweets from Mr Trump, who has 41.7 million followers, have frequently caused controversy.

The latest incident has sparked debate about the security of the president's account, given the potential consequences of posts falsely attributed to Mr Trump being published.

However, @POTUS, the official account of the US president, was unaffected.

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