Twitter employee shuts down Trump's account on last day of work

“Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” Twitter said in a statement. “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.”

Later, however, the social-media giant revealed the controlled alt-delete was done by a departing employee who was trying to go out with a virtual bang.

“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,” Twitter wrote. “We are conducting a full internal review.”