Update 2: in another odd twist, on Monday morning, the US Navy's official Twitter account posted just these words in quotes "Julian Assange" which it then quickly deleted. Wikileaks captured a screenshot of the tweet as shown below:

Shortly after, when the tweet was publicized, the account then tweeted shortly after, around noon that "an inadvertent keystroke by an authorized user of the U.S. Navy Office of Information's Digitial Media Engagement Team caused the trending term "Julian Assange" to be tweeted from the Navy's official Twitter account" and in a follow up tweet added that "the inadvertent tweet was briefly posted for a few second before it was quickly deleted by the same authorized user. The inadvertent tweet was sent during routine monitoring of trending topics."

Update: as of 9:30am ET, the @JulianAssange accounts has returned, although it appears to be a truncated or restored one, which shortly after its reappearance shows just over 1,000 followers.

A "returned" Assange tweeted the following cartoon.

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