Meet the German student who deactivated Donald Trump's Twitter account

Of all the questionable political opinions and offensive comments the President of the United States has spouted on his Twitter account, there's no denying that Donald Trump's tweets are entertaining. As controversial or upsetting as they may be, every now and again there comes a little nugget of gold from @realDonaldTrump. Like the time he tweeted the ludicrous "It’s freezing and snowing in New York – we need global warming!" or when he took to his favourite platform to tattle on North Korea's tyrannical dictator like a petulant child. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/929511061954297857]] I mean, just yesterday he directed a handful of insensitive tweets at Britain's Prime Minister before realising he accidentally sent them to a @TheresaMay who only had three followers, rather than the correct handle @Theresa_May. How embarrassing. So when at the start of the month Trump's incessantly active Twitter profile disappeared from the internet, it sparked nothing short of a kerfuffle. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/justinjacobs/status/926223343082180608]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/20committee/status/926222452157571073]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/monicapatel917/status/926222363158511616]] The US president's account was deactivated for a total of 11 minutes, and while everyone speculated what force on this earth could've caused the glitch, Twitter came forward with the news that it was all thanks to a bold employee who took the liberty to delete the account on his last day working at Twitter. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/TwitterGov/status/926238960594178048]] The cigar-crunching sportscar enthusiast was having a swell time in the States on a work visa, and towards the end of his stint overseas, he took a job working as a contractor for Twitter. Duysak worked in the department handling reports of bad behaviour and deleting with accounts flagged for violating Twitter's guidelines. And it happened just like it would on any other day, Duysak received a complaint – just so happening to be against Trump – and it was his job to decide to act on it or not. And act on it he did, much to the delight of many. But although he was hailed a hero for silencing the notoriously big-mouthed billionaire businessman, Duysak claims he didn't mean to do it. He told TechCrunch that it was all a "mistake" and that he didn't think the account would actually be shut down. Contrary to the praise he's received for the ballsy move, Duysak says he doesn't feel like a hero and has attracted unwanted attention to himself from the media who have been relentlessly pursuing him for comment. “I didn’t hack anyone. I didn’t do anything that I was not authorized to do,” he said. “I didn’t go to any site I was not supposed to go to. I didn’t break any rules.”