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Johannesburg - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was accidentally and briefly suspended from the social network he co-founded briefly on Tuesday.
Dorsey was temporarily suspended from his microblogging brainchild when his account was reported offline for a number of hours.
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Shortly after the awkward moment, his account was restored losing his over 4 million Twitter followers which have since grown to 3.3 million.
After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted about the mistake.
just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake)
— ????jack (@jack) November 23, 2016
It goes without saying that opportunistic users took the chance to poke fun at Dorsey's accidental suspension from the social network.
@santisiri tweeted: “@SwiftOnSecurity @jack just like the dead facebook accounts from last week. but let's play it cool for the media.”
@JFABtm responded saying: “@jack it was a publicity stunt, please don't paint us as stupid”
@ILoveNuiHarime tweeted: “@MyTinehNimjeh @jack or posted a bad joke”
It was not long before users drew comparisons to Facebook’s technical glitch just under a fortnight ago which “killed-off” numerous users. That glitch also turned Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s page into a memorial.
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Twitter has experienced a bad year with numerous conglomerates who initially expressed interested in a buyout of the social network but decided not to go through with the deal.
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