[Alex3917]

> Last year a contractor deleted the president’s account.

The fact that they undeleted it is strong evidence that he didn't have discretion in how he performed his job, and thus was actually an employee and not a contractor.

[gowld]

If my gardener leaves a rake on my driveway, I'll remove the rake. That doesn't make the gardener an employee.

[lstamour]

I’m not sure how that follows. Are you suggesting they don’t keep backups or use a “deletion” flag temporarily, e.g. as part of spam account removal?

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Indeed. I deleted my Twitter account recently, there was a message that data is retained for 30 days to facilitate un-deletion. I assume their internal process is the same.