This "hero" who deactivated Donald Trump's Twitter account
Some users of the social network have greeted the employee who took advantage of his last day at Twitter to delete the account of the American president.
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.
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
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. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
“Sorry, this page does not exist. Some dreamed it, a Twitter employee did it: Donald Trump's Twitter account was deactivated around 11 p.m. Thursday evening ... for eleven minutes.
NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
A deactivation carried out "inadvertently" advances the social network, which explains on one of its official accounts that it was for the culprit of his last day of work within the company. An exit to say the least noticed.
Celui qui a désactivé le Twitter de Trump pour son dernier jour dans l'entreprise a fait ce dont on rêve tous: partir avec un coup d'éclat 👌
— Clémentine Rebillat (@clerebillat) November 3, 2017
Ce moment étrange où Donald #Trump a disparu... Etrange sensation de vide sur #Twitter vers 19h (minuit 🇫🇷) ce jeudi. pic.twitter.com/5SrK8YmTZz
— Cédric Faiche (@cedricfaiche) November 2, 2017
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.
Le héros mondial: un employé de twitter démissionnaire a bloqué le compte twitter de Donald trump...Bravo le gars!
— MorganToMe (@Morgan2Me) November 3, 2017
A "world hero", proclaims in particular an Internet user. Because the American president's Twitter account has always been divisive to say the least, since his 2016 presidential campaign has been his main tool for political communication. The latest controversy to date being that which followed the New York attack of October 31, the President of the United States calling in a tweet for the death penalty for the perpetrator of the attack.
Twitter employee turns off #Trump. Gold. #Resist #champion pic.twitter.com/reIs7vm8F2
— Kate Murdoch (@KateMurdoch3) November 3, 2017
NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room. He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!
11 minutes de Twitter sans #Trump... le type mérite le Prix Nobel de la Paix ! https://t.co/au9sXS9yq0
— Yann-Maël Larher PhD (@YannMael) November 3, 2017
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017
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. We are conducting a full internal review. https://t.co/mlarOgiaRF
— TwitterGov (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017
For comparison, the @realdonaldtrump account - used personally before his election - has 41 million subscribers, while @POTUS, the official account of the US presidency since Barack Obama, tops out at 21 million subscribers and does not serves today as a simple tool for relaying his own tweets, still written under the banner of his personal account.
Mais si vous rêvez de ne plus voir Donald Trump sur Twitter, il suffit de l’unfollow. C’est aussi efficace que de supprimer son compte.
— Fabrice Pelosi (@fabricepelosi) November 3, 2017
Such an event hitting the potentially most influential account in the world did not fail to elicit amused reactions. "You who deactivate Trump's Twitter account before you leave: you are the sun of my day," said one, "a feeling of emptiness" for another. This shows to what extent the activity of the American president on Twitter is followed and scrutinized.
This employee may not know it, but he fulfilled a wish expressed by Hillary Clinton during the US presidential election: "Delete your account", she had launched, quoting a tweet from Donald Trump. Wish partially granted.
Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016
