Twitter Promises Safeguards After Trump's Account Goes Dark

Twitter is instituting new safeguards to prevent the personal account of its most-followed world leader, President Donald Trump, from going dark.

Update: We have implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again. We won't be able to share all details about our internal investigation or updates to our security measures, but we take this seriously and our teams are on it. https://t.co/8EfEzHvB7p

— Twitter Government (@TwitterGov) November 3, 2017

The firm wouldn't detail what the safeguards are, citing security concerns, but vowed "our teams are on it." Trump's account went dark for 11 minutes Thursday night.

My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017

The company has explained someone with the ability to suspend accounts deleted Trump's on Thursday night — on the staffer's last day on the job.

According to the New York Times, the worker was a contractor, and not directly employed by Twitter.

Trump broke the news Friday morning, suggesting his "word" was "having an impact."

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