Meet the Man Who Deactivated the President’s Twitter Account

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Earlier this month, the very active, very watched Twitter account of the President was abruptly deactivated for 11 minutes. The man responsible for those 11 minutes moved back home to Germany, and he agreed to speak to TechCrunch about what happened that day.

Someone reported the account on Duysak’s last day; as a final, throwaway gesture, he put the wheels in motion to deactivate it. Then he closed his computer and left the building. Duysak describes the event as a “mistake.” Specifically, he told us, he never thought the account would actually get deactivated.
 
Twitter make any money yet? The only use I've made of it is to publicly complain to companies, seems to work for that purpose.
 
TwiceOver said:
Twitter make any money yet? The only use I've made of it is to publicly complain to companies, seems to work for that purpose.
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Nope, even with it being the official communications method of the POTUS, the stock itself has been one giant turd-burger of an investment.
 
I work in IT for a large swath of big retail stores that sell overpriced shiny rocks, so some very non-critical stuff in the big scheme of things, and even I have no time to tweet while I'm at work.

No matter how you feel about how this current president is doing his job, I think we can all agree that he uses Twitter a bit too much considering his job title.

The guy that deactivated the account probably thought the same.
 
Sonicks said:
I work in IT for a large swath of big retail stores that sell overpriced shiny rocks, so some very non-critical stuff in the big scheme of things, and even I have no time to tweet while I'm at work.

No matter how you feel about how this current president is doing his job, I think we can all agree that he uses Twitter a bit too much considering his job title.

The guy that deactivated the account probably thought the same.
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The dude barely sleeps. He's got plenty of time for work and other things.
 
Thing that makes me the most inclined to respond in that entire interview. The interviewers hair. If you want to be taken seriously, that is not the way to do it.

What a stupid attempt by TC to be relevant.
 
face2palm said:
The dude barely sleeps. He's got plenty of time for work and other things.
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Consider the content of the tweets too.

Doesn't seem like he's got very important things on his mind. Also I'd take the 'barely sleeps' claim with a grain of salt. The guy isn't exactly known to tell the truth.
 
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RogueTadhg said:
Politics aside: it was still a bonehead thing to do... Not only have you marked yourself as an employee that has anger management issues, you did it in a way that everyone knows.
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In the current state of affairs, you know there is an employer out there that will agree with this guy's stance and hire him immediately on the basis that it was a 'ballsy move'. Sad but true.
 
yaaassss! snowflake melted back to germany lol

he/she/undecided will fit right in and find out germany is not so much germany anymore
 
Twisted Kidney said:
This was a moron move, it's going to affect his career.
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I wouldn't be so sure it wouldn't, he moved back to Germany. I don't think Trump is liked outside of certain factions of the US.

Because of WHO he did it to, they may just overlook it as they'll see it as "he deactivated Trump's account" and not "he deactivated the POTUS account."
 
timberwolf said:
After he moved back to Germany...such a brave justice warrior.
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He didn't say he did it on purpose, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Not one remark about how he didn't like trump etc and said it was just coincidences, and didn't act proud that he did it.
 
Man? What happened to that fat overweight conservative's wet dream of the typical liberal gal that was posted as the person who did it? :D
 
Now if we can only get this guy to use his haxor capabilities to find those pesky deleted E-mails. :rolleyes:
 
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