Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Briefly Goes Missing, Twitter Rejoices

Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account appeared to have been deactivated for a few minutes on Thursday, briefly sending the social media platform spiraling with speculation about the cause.

The @realDonaldTrump account went down around 3:55 p.m. PT on Thursday afternoon, but was back up within 10 minutes. The reason for the outage wasn’t immediately clear, and representatives for Twitter have not yet returned TheWrap’s request for comment.

Users attempting to view Trump’s profile were met with a “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!” message, leading some to wonder whether the account had been suspended, deleted voluntarily, or if they were experiencing some kind of technical glitch.

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When the account went back online, users began to joke about the short respite from the president’s combative Twitter presence, and the historical significance of seeing the first prolific tweeter to inhabit the White House going offline.

“We’ll all remember where we were during the 10 minutes of peace while Donald Trump’s Twitter account was down,” wrote comedian Mike Drucker.

“I survived the Trump twitter outage,” wrote Think Progress founder Judd Legum, who memorialized the moment with the hashtag #neverforget.

Trump’s last tweet was a video of his press conference announcing Jerome Powell as his nominee to replace Janet Yellen as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. That missive was sent at 3:35 p.m. PT.

Trump's Twitter account appears to be down. pic.twitter.com/VLNfnGcz6H

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 2, 2017

For five minutes we were all reminded of what life was like when we never had to give a single thought to the diseased brain of Donald Trump

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) November 2, 2017

I survived the Trump twitter outage

November 2, 2017

6:58PM to 7:04PM #neverforget

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 2, 2017

rip trump-free twitter never forget

— Mary Ellen Murray (@maryellenmurr) November 2, 2017

We’ll all remember where we were during the 10 minutes of peace while Donald Trump’s Twitter account was down.

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 2, 2017

lol did trump leave twitter

— David Sims (@davidlsims) November 2, 2017

Feel like I need to re-evaluate my life choices after reflecting on my reaction to Trump's Twitter.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 2, 2017

We just experienced the best two minutes of 2017 while Trump's Twitter was down.

— Jason Diamond (@imjasondiamond) November 2, 2017

@jack I need to very seriously tell you that the 70 seconds that Trump's twitter account went away were the happiest 70 seconds of my year.

— Cabel Sasser (@cabel) November 2, 2017