On last day of work, rogue Twitter employee deactivated Trump’s account

Enlarge / The Twitter timeline of US President Donald Trump is seen on June 29, 2017, in Bydgoszcz, Poland after he insulted TV show host Mika Brzezinski on the platform claiming he was bullied by Mrs. Brzezinski and her co-hosts on their show Morning Joe on MSNBC. (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter announced Thursday evening that an employee, on his or her last day of work at the company, deactivated President Donald Trump's notorious Twitter account. The president's account was only absent for 11 minutes before it was restored.

In a series of its own tweets, the company said: "We are conducting a full internal review."

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

- Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017

The company did not elaborate as to what steps had or would be taken.

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