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Was apparently taken away from him. our own william la jeunesse finally has more. >> social media, without social media im not sure that i would be here talking. >> reporter: president trump and twitter, with 41 million followers, he ranks 21 worldwide, but thursday night for 11 minutes the site shut him down. >> when youre looking at a top 25 account, either this person was very senior or theres a definite breakdown in internal protocols. >> reporter: twitter initially claimed the presidents fe...

>> two hours later, it blames an employee saying, quote, we have learned it is done by a twitter support employee, who did this on the employees last day. we are conducting a full internal review. >> it could be a breakdown in protocol. or it was a rogue employee. >> twitter deactivating a top account is serious. if you believe one low-level employee has sole authority to do so. >> this individual has the ability to take things down for may have had the ability to actually tweet on the president...