
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital-related news. What people are talking about today: For 11 minutes on Thursday, President Donald Trump’s Twitter account mysteriously disappeared. “@realDonaldTrump does not exist,” was the message some people saw.
Twitter at first spoke of “human error,” then later blamed the episode on an employee whose last day of work was Thursday.
We hate to jump to conclusions, but we will anyway: It sounds like someone went rogue. The unnamed employee, whoever it is, quickly became a folk hero to people who think @realDonaldTrump has violated Twitter’s terms of service (for example, by threatening to annihilate North Korea.)
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