--- title: Donald Trump's Twitter Account Briefly Vanished description: President Donald Trump's Twitter account vanished for a few minutes, and the internet decided to have fun with it canonical: https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-02T23:29:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:37:49.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump's Twitter Account Vanished for a Few Minutes and the Internet Went Nuts og:description: The president's account was back online within minutes og:url: https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f59cb55079a2a9/6988e47222fb85a25fe23881/president-donald-trump-twitter-account-deleted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4885 og:image:height: 2748 og:image:alt: Trump Meets With GOP House Leaders And Ways And Means Cmte Members og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump's Twitter Account Vanished for a Few Minutes and the Internet Went Nuts twitter:description: The president's account was back online within minutes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f59cb55079a2a9/6988e47222fb85a25fe23881/president-donald-trump-twitter-account-deleted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump's Twitter Account Vanished for a Few Minutes and the Internet Lost Its Mind > Sponsored content. 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Drew Angerer—Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:37 AM UTCPublished: Nov 2, 2017 11:29 PM UTC President Donald Trump’s Twitter account appeared to disappear for several minutes on Thursday night before returning to normal. Throughout his candidacy and since he was elected president, Trump has used Twitter as a frequent means of communication, tweeting everything from jokes to criticisms to important policy announcements. Some of his tweets have attacked individuals and caused some to argue that the messages violate the social media [platform’s rules](https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311) about abuse. Later Thursday evening, Twitter posted a message from its Government and Elections team saying that the president’s account had been deleted “due to human error by a Twitter employee.” The tweet said @realDonaldTrump was down for 11 minutes before being restored. > [](https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048) Twitter later said that the error was made by a customer support employee on their last day of work, and that a “full internal review” is under way. > [](https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926267806261407744) On Friday morning, Trump responded on Twitter, saying “a rogue employee” took his account down. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/926401530013642765) As Twitter users tried to figure out what was happening to Trump’s account before the company clarified on Thursday, many piled on in making jokes about the president’s being banned from the platform. > [](https://twitter.com/soniasaraiya/status/926224065928540160) > [](https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/926224103266291713) > [](https://twitter.com/everydaydude/status/926223869970706432) > [](https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/926223449944596480) > [](https://twitter.com/AkilahObviously/status/926222044194332672) > [](https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/926224613239074817) > [](https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/926222089161531395) The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/"},"headline":"President Trump's Twitter Account Vanished for a Few Minutes and the Internet Lost Its Mind","datePublished":"2017-11-02T23:29:47.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T00:37:49.000Z","description":"The president's account was back online within minutes","url":"https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f59cb55079a2a9/6988e47222fb85a25fe23881/president-donald-trump-twitter-account-deleted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt47f59cb55079a2a9/6988e47222fb85a25fe23881/president-donald-trump-twitter-account-deleted.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump Meets With GOP House Leaders And Ways And Means Cmte Members","caption":"Trump Meets With GOP House Leaders And Ways And Means Cmte Members","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5008492/donald-trump-twitter-account-briefly-deleted-reactions/","name":"President Trump's Twitter Account Vanished for a Few Minutes and the Internet Lost Its Mind"}}]}] ```