A Twitter outage caused the retweet to vanish from some users' feeds which suggested the US president had deleted it.
President Donald Trump is facing criticism after retweeting a post that included the alleged name of the anonymous whistleblower who sparked his impeachment investigation by the House.
Mr Trump retweeted a message from user @Surfermom77 - an account which claims to be a woman named Sophia living in California - on Friday night. That account includes an unusually high amount of activity and features stock images from the internet which are typically signs of an automated or bot account.
The retweet disappeared on Saturday morning, which suggested Mr Trump had deleted it although it could still be found.But it reappeared on Saturday night and Twitter told the Associated Press news agency that an outage with one of its systems caused tweets on some account, including Mr Trump's, to only be visible to some users.The US president has repeatedly supported efforts to unmask the whistleblower, but this is the first time he has directly posted the alleged name on his Twitter feed.
Identifying the whistleblower, who works in the intelligence field, could violate federal protection laws.
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