Article 39ES4 Ex-Twitter worker who 'admires' Trump says he was behind account deactivation

Ex-Twitter worker who 'admires' Trump says he was behind account deactivation

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Julia Carrie Wong
from Technology | The Guardian on (#39ES4)

Bahtiyar Duysak of Germany tells CNN he made 'a mistake' in temporarily deactivating the president's account, but the details remain murky

A German man who says he "admires" Donald Trump has claimed responsibility for the deactivation of the president's Twitter account for 11 minutes on 2 November, though questions remain about how and why he did it.

Twitter said at the time that the temporary outage was caused by "a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day". Many Trump opponents hailed the unknown employee as a hero.

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