Trump's Twitter Account Was Disabled Briefly And The Internet Lost It

President Donald Trump’s Twitter account appeared to have disappeared for several minutes Thursday night before returning to normal. It turned out that the account “@realDonaldTrump” was deleted by a Twitter employee during his last day at work.

In a statement on the social media platform, Twitter said it has launched a review of its policies after an employee reportedly used their last day in the job to deactivate the president's personal account.

Users who visited Trump's account for that time Thursday were greeted with the message: "Sorry, that page doesn't exist.”

The outage lasted for 11 minutes, according to Twitter’s official statement.

The account was said to have been pulled down soon after Trump tweeted a video announcing the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve about 3:35 p.m. EDT on Thursday.

Later that evening, Twitter posted a message from the Government and Elections team stating that the president’s account had been deleted "due to human error by a Twitter employee."

As Twitter users tried to figure out what was happening to the president’s account before the company issued a clarification Thursday, many of them made hilarious jokes about the employee who deleted the account while some also piled on making jokes about Trump being banned from the platform.

Once Trump’s account came back on, it still did not stop Twitter users from raising more questions:

Soon after the president’s account re-emerged, within an hour of the disruption, Trump tweeted about tax reform and his claims that the Democratic Party rigged the 2016 primary elections.

Trump has a total of 41.7 million followers on Twitter. Trump's Twitter account has been ranked No. 21 on the list of most followed accounts on the social media platform.

Trump, who also superseded Pope Francis as the most followed world leader on Twitter last month, has always come under fire over his Twitter practices since he took the office in January.

In an interview with NBC's Sunday TODAY, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the president’s use of his platform, emphasizing the fact that it was of more importance to hear from the man himself for the sake of accountability.

"I believe it's really important to hear directly from our leadership," Dorsey told NBC's Willie Geist. "I believe it's really important to hold him accountable. And I believe it's really important to have these conversations out in the open rather than behind closed doors."

A similar outage incident took place in November 2016, when Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account had been briefly suspended as a result of what he claimed to be an internal mistake.

Twitter has faced numerous calls earlier to delete Trump's account before citing the president’s tweeting habits, which have been criticized often.

But Twitter hasn't taken any such actions, saying it wouldn't delete his account or tweets threatening North Korea or his tweets alike because it was "newsworthy" and posted in public interest, abc.net.au reported.

The president himself has also deleted individual tweets several times, something experts have stated as being against the law but those actions are very unlikely to land him in trouble.