Twitter suspends VP Robredo’s account after netizens reported “fake”

Vice President Leni Robredo’s twitter account on Sunday went offline for 36 hours after several netizens reported it as “fake account”.

Internal twitter investigation says a twitter customer support who is not familiar with the vice president, shut down her account after receiving more than a hundred reports that the account was fake.

Robredo’s account started to become inaccessible at around 4AM on Sunday.

At first, her supporters thought it was just a glitch, but people started to panic when none of them could no longer access the account.

Twitter’s internal report says that the support department started receiving complaints around 2PM on the same day, but it took more than a day to verify the account according to senior support who refused to give his name.

“We received more than 200 reports that the account was fake, so without further ado, our remote support office in Bangalore suspended the account. We have an Indian support so he definitely had no idea who VP Robredo is”, the senior employee in Quezon City said.

The employee added that receiving less than 50 reports for an account is still tolerable, but in Robredo’s case, it received more than 200 fake reports.

The account was restored on Monday noon.

The camp of VP Robredo was aware but the company said her people had no idea how to contact twitter support in order to report the issue. /Leomar Bondoc/

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