{"id":128163,"date":"2017-11-03T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T06:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128163"},"modified":"2017-11-03T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T06:03:28","slug":"twitter-takes-responsibility-for-trump-twitter-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/03\/twitter-takes-responsibility-for-trump-twitter-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter takes responsibility for Trump Twitter outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107605\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107605\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo: The White House)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20017550_1371786449575751_4908605424920238094_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WhiteHouse\/photos\/a.1371188766302186.1073741846.1191441824276882\/1371786449575751\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WhiteHouse\/\">The White House<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter account briefly disappeared Thursday evening, but is now back up and running, according to the social messaging company.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday, social media reports surfaced that the president&#8217;s personal account, ?RealDonaldTrump, was unavailable, providing the error message that the user \u201cdoes not exist.\u201d The account was restored by 7:03 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter took responsibility for the outage. In a tweeted statement, the company said Trump&#8217;s account was \u201cinadvertently deactivated due to human error\u201d by one of its employees. The account was unreachable for 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,\u201d the company statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter account briefly disappeared Thursday evening, but is now back up and running, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":107605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[9869,1690,30974],"class_list":["post-128163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-outrage","mauthors-zeke-miller","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}