Internet reacts to brief disappearance of President Donald Trump's Twitter account

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Friday, November 3, 2017
Internet reacts to brief disappearance of President Donald Trump's Twitter account
President Donald Trump disappeared from Twitter on Thursday for less than 10 minutes. But that hasn't stopped people from talking about it.

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump disappeared from Twitter on Thursday, but not for long. Around 4 p.m. PST, this was the message greeting people who looked for his personal account @realDonaldTrump: "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"

The account returned shortly after it vanished. You can click here to see it live.

The reason this happened? Well, Twitter first 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."

Then a few hours later they tweeted, "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."

The brief disappearance of the president's Twitter account got the internet buzzing. Here's a roundup of some of the best tweets: