Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet

Twitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, one of the vital fashionable locations for folks searching for a Twitter-like various. If you go to @joinmastodon’s profile, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended.

We don’t know precisely why the account was banned, however it could not have been completed completely out of spite for a rival platform. Instead, it may have been as a result of Mastodon tweeted about @ElonJet.

The Mastodon suspension occurred someday on Thursday. The Wayback Machine has an archive of the energetic profile from 12:39PM ET, however an archive from 6:12PM ET reveals the suspended web page. On the archive of the energetic profile, there’s a tweet pointing to @ElonJet’s Mastodon account.

On Wednesday, Twitter suspended @ElonJet and @ElonJet’s creator and launched a brand new coverage in opposition to sharing dwell location info. That includes sharing “links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes,” and it seems Twitter counts a hyperlink to @ElonJet’s Mastodon account as a violation of the coverage.

Twitter, which dissolved its press workplace throughout its latest layoffs, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Mastodon additionally hasn’t replied to a request for remark.