Twitter is in the midst of figuring out how it should shut down harassers on its platform. Whether or not it meant to, the social media site took an unnecessary step in that direction on Tuesday.

The site’s founder, Jack Dorsey (who uses the handle @Jack), couldn’t tweet or be seen by others after his account was frozen by Twitter for a while on Tuesday. This of course brought a lot of conversation to the table.

With just about the entire internet knowing, the account was quickly brought back to life and tweeted from quickly.

After it came back online, Dorsey tweeted that the suspension was the result of “an internal mistake.”

“Just setting up my twttr…again (account suspension was an internal mistake),” Dorsey wrote — a spin on the first ever public post on Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), which he tweeted in March 2006.

It’s definitely a weird situation, and I’m sure the folks at Twitter are doing a deep dive into what caused this malfunction. It could be a number of things, but for users, this is a tad alarming. If the guy who founded the damn site isn’t immune from cyber hacks, who is?

[CNN]

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