That’s right, social media glitches have embarrassed two of the world’s premier social networks lately. Hot on the heels of Facebook briefly pronouncing its founder as dead, so today Dorsey — the visionary behind Twitter’s inception and driving force for its development — was suspended from the service he helped create for hours.
Invalid Tweet IDFormer TechCrunch’er Drew Olanoff was among those to notice that @jack was no longer reachable:
Twitter recently dropped the hammer and suspended a number of ‘alt-right’ figures from using its service, and it appears that its own CEO was locked out for around two to three hours. Dorsey reprised his famous first tweet with a message explaining that there had been an “internal mistake”:
