Identity Of Hero Who Deactivated Trump’s Twitter Account Finally Revealed

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As you may remember, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had his overactive and alarming Twitter account very briefly deactivated at the beginning of this month. There was much rejoicing.

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And then, when it emerged that the cause of the deactivation was a disgruntled employee shooting his shot on his very last day at Twitter, there was practically pandemonium.

We all wanted to know who the give-no-fucks hero was who deleted the President’s account before, we assume, setting his desk on fire and walking out while putting sunglasses on.

And now we know.

Thanks to a fascinating interview by TechCrunch, the identity of the hero of 2017 has been revealed as German bloke Bahtiyar Duysak. He was a contractor for Twitter towards the end of his stay in the States on a work/study visa, and he worked in the department that received reports of bad behaviour or violation of terms of service – basically, if you flagged an account, Duysak was one of the people who’d see your alert and choose whether or not to act on it.

And that’s exactly what he did.

In the very last moments of his tenure at Twitter, Duysak reportedly received a complaint about Trump’s account. He effectively shrugged, hit the big red button, and shut his computer down.

He later told TechCrunch that he did not think the account would actually be deactivated, and that he does not feel like a hero – particularly as the media have been absolutely hounding him ever since.

He’s now returned to Germany, where he gave the interview to TechCrunch, and despite not feeling like the hero that we’ve all been waiting for, is absolutely adamant that he didn’t actually do anything wrong.

I didn’t hack anyone. I didn’t do anything that I was not authorised to do. I didn’t go to any site I was not supposed to go to. I didn’t break any rules.

We’re with you, mate. Keep on fighting the good fight.

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