Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter continues to be…well, that’s certainly something.
Thursday evening was eventful on the popular microblogging site, as hanging musk several prominent journalists from media like the New York Times and Mashable. Their crime was believed to have shared live location data for Musk, under reports on the Banning Elon Jet’s Twitter Account.
What followed was even stranger. Buzzfeed’s Katie Notopoulos started a Twitter space, during which it was discovered that banned journalists (including Mashable’s Matt Binder) could still speak. Musk joined the space, answered a few questions, offered the same general “you dox, you’re hanging” response to everyone, and then left. Shortly after, the Spaces feature was disabled for everyone.
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Friday morning, the Spaces button still exists on the Twitter iOS app for me, but trying to join or start a space results in an error message that the feature is not available on my device.
Doesn’t work for me.
Musk insisted in a Twitter reply that Spaces had been removed to “fix a legacy bug” (presumably the part where banned users could still speak) and that the feature would be back on Friday.
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We’ll have to wait and see whether or not Spaces returns in a timely manner, given the number of people Musk fired of the site in the past two months.
