President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly disappeared Thursday evening, but is now back up and running, according to the social messaging company.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday, social media reports surfaced that the president's personal account, @RealDonaldTrump, was unavailable, providing the error message that the user ``does not exist.'' The account was restored by 7:03 p.m.
Twitter took responsibility for the outage. In a tweeted statement, the company said Trump's account was ``inadvertently deactivated due to human error'' by one of its employees. The account was unreachable for 11 minutes.
``We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again,'' the company statement continued.
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.