We all get a bit ballsier as we get to the end of a job; steal a few office supplies, try and bang that co-worker in the photocopy room, and most commonly, tell our ball-breaker boss where to shove his condescension. But this former Twitter employee, will go down in the books.
On his last day, he decided to deactivate Donald Trump’s account, disconnecting from his 41 million followers.
Unfortunately, his account was only inactive for 11 minutes… But it was still enough to send Twitter into overdrive. And enough for Twitter themselves to release a comment:
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.
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
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
— Government (@Gov) November 3, 2017
Well, when you figure out who it was, be sure to buy them a pint from us.
It’s funny though, you don’t really think about the power you have working at a social media company. Imagine, BYE BYE to your ex’s social existence.
