{"id":21571,"date":"2017-11-03T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/03\/donald-trumps-twitter-handle-deactivated-by-employee\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:22:32","slug":"donald-trumps-twitter-handle-deactivated-by-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/donald-trumps-twitter-handle-deactivated-by-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trumps Twitter Handle Deactivated by Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 03-11-2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While many were hoping it would be a permanent shutdown, US President Donald Trumps Twitter handle was briefly unplugged without warning when an employee of the social media company deactivated the @realdonaldtrump account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The account went down for 11 minutes yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter says it is now investigating the matter and taking steps to avoid it happening again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee&#8217;s last day. We are conducting a full internal review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump brushed off the outage in a new tweet on Friday, suggesting it showed the impact he was having.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He tweeted: \u201cMy Twitter account was taken down by a rogue employee. I guess the word must be finally getting-out and having an impact.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trump, who has more then 41 million followers, has frequently caused controversy with his tweets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/926401530013642765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 03-11-2017 \u00a0 While many were hoping it would be a permanent shutdown, US President Donald Trumps Twitter handle was briefly unplugged without warning when an employee of the social media company deactivated the @realdonaldtrump account.\u00a0 The account went down for 11 minutes yesterday.\u00a0 Twitter says it is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5BV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 06:48:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}