Twitter says a departing employee deactivated Trump's account

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The crack detectives at Twitter have already determined which employee was responsible for making President Trump's account disappear on Thursday evening: Someone in the customer support department working his or her last day at the company.

For 11 minutes, much to the shock/confusion/sheer joy of many, Trump's Twitter page did not exist. The page soon reappeared, complete with a new, misspelled tweet, and Twitter Government announced that the account was "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee."

Later, Twitter Government followed up with some new information: "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." That's one way to make sure your former coworkers — and the entire Twittersphere — never forget you.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.