US President Donald Trump's Twitter, which boasts 41 million followers, was briefly unavailable on Thursday following an employee "deactivating" the account.
Trump's Twitter account went down at about 3.50pm (local time) on Thursday and was claimed to be a result of "human error", according to the company.
Twitter then released a statement saying Trump's account was deactivated for 11 minutes by a "customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day".
Social media was flooded with praise for the 'Twitter employee' following the deactivation of the account.
Other social media comments suggested the 11 minutes was short-lived.
Donald Trump's Twitter account went offline for 11 minutes, a day after he said the man responsible for Manhattan attack should get the death penalty.
Trump tweeted as recently as 3.35pm (local time) on Thursday sharing a video of him formally nominating Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Trump has recently drawn ire for his tweets about the Manhattan terror attack. He tweeted on Wednesday that Sayfullo Saipov, the man identified as the perpetrator of the attack, "should get the death penalty."
Experts told NBC News that his tweets could make it harder for prosecutors in the case against Saipov.
