WASHINGTON, D.C.: A Twitter employee on their last day with the company was responsible for taking down Donald Trump’s account, the social network said Thursday (Friday in Manila), as the president resumed tweeting after the 11-minute outage.

Visitors to @realDonaldTrump around 7 p.m. (2300 GMT) were greeted with the message “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”

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