Trump's Twitter shut down by employee on last day of work

Employees who are about to leave an organisation should make sure they leave without burning any bridges. It’s incumbent on any outgoing staff to conduct a proper handover, and to make the process as smooth as possible.

Compounding this, a rogue Twitter worker allegedly shut down US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account on their last day of employment.

The Guardian reports that a Twitter employee deactivated Trump’s very vocal account, meaning it was offline for at least 11 minutes. Twitter announced that the deactivation was due to “human error by a Twitter employee”.

In their first statement, Twitter said: “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.”