Twitter Inc.’s live audio service, Twitter Spaces, is down after a number of journalists that had just been suspended from the social network found they could still participate on it.
Twitter owner Elon Musk said late Thursday
night that the company was fixing an old bug and the audio service “should be
working tomorrow.” Earlier in the evening, Musk’s network threw reporters from
CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times, among others, into a seven-day
suspension for allegedly disclosing the location of his private jet. Also read:
Twitter suspends accounts of several journalists; Musk cites doxxing rules
BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulos
went live on Twitter Spaces to discuss the abrupt spate of bans — which came
without communication to either the journalists or their publications — and was
joined by Drew Harwell of the Washington Post and Matt Binder of Mashable, two
of the suspended reporters. Their tweets were no longer visible and they could
not post new ones, however they were still allowed to speak on the Spaces
service.
Musk dropped in on the session as well,
after it accumulated thousands of listeners, to say tersely that anyone who
doxxes — gives personal location information about another person — will be
suspended. The journalists countered that they had not posted any real-time
flight data, as he alleged, but by then the billionaire had quit the call. The
dialogue drew more than 40,000 listeners at its peak.
Twitter Spaces went down while Notopoulos’
session was still ongoing, disconnecting everyone, she said in a later tweet.
No recording or information about that session is available on Twitter now.
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