Man who deleted Trump’s Twitter for 11 minutes explains what happened
A German man has come forward to discuss how he was the one responsible for the deactivation of President Trump’s Twitter account for eleven minutes in November.
At the time Twitter stated that the temporary deactivation was done by “a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day.” This led to the man being hailed a hero by many Americans.
Bahtiyar Duysak, 28, however, is now saying that it was an error and that he “admires” Trump.
“I’m not a rogue person,” Duysak said on CNN. “I did a mistake, I confess.”
Twitter is not commenting on Duysak, stating, “We have taken a number of steps to keep an incident like this from happening again.
“In order to protect our internal security measures, we don’t have further details to share at this time.”
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Duysak is not explaining just how it happened but said that a Twitter user had reported Trump’s Twitter account for violating the rules of the site.
Duysak’s actions have been described as a “final, throwaway gesture” that “put the wheels in motion to deactivate” the account.
“It’s not like I was looking for something or planning to do it,” the former Twitter staffer told CNN. “It was in front of me, and I didn’t do a good job, and I didn’t double-check things.”
Trump currently has over 43 million followers and is commonly reported for violating the terms of service.
Just last Wednesday he retweeted Islamophobic propaganda from an extreme right racist organization called Britain First causing an uproar both in Britain and at home.
Many can’t understand that while Twitter says they are attempting to crack down on extremism and abusive behavior on their platform, the President seems exempt from these efforts even as he violates the company’s normal standards.
Duysak has still not explained how the report he received ended with him deactivating Trump’s account.
“Even if it was on purpose, it still shouldn’t have taken place … because of internal regulations at the company,” he said.
“He is a very successful person, and I admire his hard work and how he made it to get the highest position, but I think he needs to learn a little as a politician,” he added.
