Twitter’s live audio service, Twitter Spaces, has gone down after a number of journalists who had just been banned from the social network discovered they could still participate. 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 suspended reporters from CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times, among others, for seven days for allegedly revealing the location of his private jet.
BuzzFeed News reporter Katie Notopoulos continued live Twitter Sections to discuss the sudden spate of bans — which were not disclosed to journalists or their publications — and was joined by Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and Mashable’s Matt Binder, two of the suspended reporters. Their tweets were no longer visible and they couldn’t post new ones, but they were still allowed to talk through the Spaces service.
musk also came to the session, after garnering thousands of listeners, to succinctly say that anyone giving doxxt — personal location information about another person — will be suspended.
The journalists countered that they didn’t post real-time flight data, as he claimed, but by then the billionaire had ended 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. There are currently no recordings or information available on Twitter for this session.
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