- The ex-Twitter employee who shut down the account of US President Donald Trump, has been identified as Bahtiyar Duysak
- Duysak disclosed that his action was not planned, but that the opportunity fell into his lap near the end of his scheduled final shift
- He stated that he had received an alert that someone had reported a violation by Trump’s account and insisted that his action was not un-authorized
The ex-employee of Twitter Inc, who shut down the account of US President Donald Trump, has now disclosed his identity.
According to Reuters, the man, identified as Bahtiyar Duysak, a 20-something year old German with Turkish roots, revealed himself in an interview with news website TechCrunch.
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NAIJ.com gathers that Duysak disclosed that his action had been a mistake, and he didn’t think that Trump’s account would actually get deactivated.
Donald Trump's account was deactivated for 11 minutes (Photo credit: Asia Sentinel)
According to Duysak, it was not a planned act. He stated that the opportunity fell into his lap near the end of his scheduled final shift, and he grabbed it.
He stated: “There are millions of people who would take actions against him if they had the possibility. In my case, it was just random.”
He insisted that he had not done anything he was not authorized to do, as he claimed that towards the end of his last day at work, he received an alert that someone had reported a violation by Trump’s account.
In his words: “I didn’t hack anyone. I didn’t do anything which I wasn’t authorized to do.”
Twitter Inc has refused to disclose whether Duysak was actually the person responsible for the incident.
However, the company stated: “We have taken a number of steps to keep an incident like this from happening again.”
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Recall that NAIJ.com previously reported that Donald Trump's Twitter account was deactivated on Thursday, November 2, 2017.
The move by an employee- who was not named at the time- meant that the president’s account, @realdonaldtrump, was down for 11 minutes.
During the brief period of downtime shortly before 12pm, anyone going to Trump's Twitter page would see the message 'Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!'
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