Twitter said Friday that it has added safeguards to prevent a security lapse that allowed a worker to disable President Trump’s account for 11 minutes.
The company initially blamed the incident — which occurred Thursday evening — on “human error” before
at Twitter was the culprit.
But The New York Times later reported that two people who had been briefed on the matter said the employee was a contractor, not a full-timer.
The @realDonaldTrump account reappeared late Thursday.
Twitter provided no details of the new measures and added no new information about how the incident occurred.
“We have implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again,” Twitter said in a tweet Friday. “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.”
The incident occurred just a day after Twitter’s acting general counsel appeared in front of congressional investigators to answer questions about Russian activity on its platform during and after Trump’s election, the Wall Street Journal reported.
