By Muhammed Bilal Kenasari
WASHINGTON (AA) – U.S. President Donald Trump's personal Twitter account was shut down by a Twitter employee for 11 minutes on Thursday.
The president's @RealDonaldTrump account was closed around 07.00 pm (1130GMT).
In a statement, Twitter said: “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. ”
Users visiting Trump's account were left with the message of “Sorry, that page does not exist “.
Twitter later said that the investigations revealed that the account was closed by a Twitter customer support employee on his last day of work.
“We are conducting a full internal review, ” the statement said.
