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Trump's Twitter Account Down For 11 Minutes

Published November 3, 2017 at 3:57 PM CDT

President Trump's Twitter account disappeared for a few minutes on Thursday after a departing Twitter employee deactivated it. Mary Louise Kelly speaks to NPR's Laura Sydell about security questions that raises about the president's favorite medium for disseminating information.

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