On the intervening nights of 2 and 3 November, 2017, the Twitter account of the President of the United States fell silent. For one brief moment, the barrage of tweets stopped. Trump’s Twitter handle had been deactivated.
For eleven minutes, Donald Trump couldn’t post a single tweet.
And the man responsible for deactivating Trump’s account, Bahtiyar Duysak, a German citizen has come forward shouldering responsibility for the same. In an interview with TechCrunch, Duysak explains the sequence of “coincidences” which he says led to Trump’s account being deactivated.
It was a mistake. A number of coincidences happened on my last day of work at Twitter, leading to Donald Trump’s account being deactivated.Bahtiyar Duysak
Twitter had responded to the deactivation stating that it had been done by an employee on his “last day” working with them.
But why did he speak up now?
“I want to speak to my neighbours, I want to speak to my friends. I had to delete hundreds of friends because reporters are stalking me. I just want to continue an ordinary life,” says Duysak
(With inputs from TechCrunch)
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