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Was apparently taken away from him. our own william la jeunesse finally has more. >> social media, without social media i'm 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 you're looking at a top 25 account, either this person was very senior or there's a definite breakdown in internal protocols. >> reporter: twitter initially claimed the president's feed was inadvertently disconnected due to human error. two hours later it said, quote: we have le...

>> 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 employee's 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's behalf. >> 330 million use twitter. its biggest stars are actors and musicians. but few tweets c...