For 11 minutes on Nov. 2, there truly was peace on Earth. Then
President Donald Trump’s
Twitter account was reactivated.
Twitter blamed the deletion of The Donald’s account on a rogue
employee during his last day on the job.
Now the man responsible for temporarily making it impossible for Trump to
tweet is revealing his identity and explaining his actions in
an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. Video is here.
His name is Bahtiyar Duysak, and he is a German citizen with Turkish
roots who was doing customer support for Twitter’s Trust and Safety division
while in the U.S. on a work and study visa. Part of his responsibility was
to deal with alerts reporting bad behavior, offensive or illegal tweets,
and other forms of harassment.
During his last shift, someone reported Trump’s account and, without
thinking, Duysak put the wheels in motion to deactivate it. Several
hours later, he realized he had made a “mistake,” especially after seeing
several news stories about it.
Duysak said he never thought Trump’s account would actually get
deactivated, mainly because of a Twitter
policy that protects tweets that are considered newsworthy even if
they might violate its terms of service.
Duysak, who is back in Germany, tried to lie low for a while but decided
to reveal himself in order to clear the air.
“I want to continue an ordinary life. I don’t want to flee from the
media,” he told TechCrunch. “I didn’t do any crime or anything evil, but I feel
like Pablo Escobar, and slowly it’s getting really annoying.”
Duysak said he’s not interested in a career in tech and is more likely to
consider a job in finance. He’s quick to add: “But I love Twitter, and I
love America.”
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