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Twitter Spaces on Temporary Hold. Here’s Why:

George Kamau by George Kamau
December 16, 2022
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Twitter Spaces

After buying Twitter for $44 billion in October and taking it private, Elon Musk has just been creating drama on the platform. The latest feature to catch his attention is Spaces, Twitter’s live audio feature.

Last night, a group of journalists were holding a Spaces session and Elon joined in. Some journalists, some of whom had been banned by Elon Musk were in the Spaces session including some Times, Post, CNN, Mashable, and Intercept tech reporters.

Fwiw Ryan Mac was one half of the reporting team (w @mattdrange) that revealed Peter Thiel financed the legal destruction of Gawker

— noah kulwin (@nkulw) December 16, 2022

Elon musk was asked 3 questions and he couldn’t answer even one. The incendiary tech mogul informed the journalists that the same doxing rules apply to them and that they aren’t special.

“You dox, you get suspended,” he said.

This was coming after he had suspended @ElonJet, an account that tracks Elon Musk’s jet activities. It is worth noting that this data is publicly available. An additional 25 accounts that track the planes of high-profile individuals, billionaires and government agencies were also suspended.

Jack Sweeny, the account that owns ElonJet was also suspended.

After getting criticised on the Spaces session, he left and the Spaces feature started acting up – going blank and everyone got kicked out. Even the recording was not available.

Here is Elon’s full appearance in @katienotopoulos’ spaces with banned journalists tonight pic.twitter.com/1xPFtrVjf6

— Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) December 16, 2022

Also, banned accounts could join Spaces as there was a bug which let them do that as Spaces is built on an old Perisocope backend.

Twitter has a bug where suspended accounts could still use Twitter Spaces. Since everyone who knows that codebase has been fired, Twitter has shut down the entire Twitter Spaces feature.

Truly a master class in how to run a social media service. https://t.co/c607zR2iKQ

— Dare Obasanjo🐀 (@Carnage4Life) December 16, 2022
Twitter has now temporarily taken Spaces off the platform. Its dedicated icon is not even visible on the bottom navigation of the Twitter app.

Elon took to Twitter to share that they are “fixing a legacy bug” and all will be well later today. At the time of writing, Spaces is still not available.

Here are some of the best reactions:

E.M. bans a bunch of journalists critical of him, then he pops into a Space where he gets called out for lying about the official motive for the bans, can't justify himself, immediately leaves.

Shortly afterwards Twitter forcefully shut down that Space. Just incredible stuff. https://t.co/LQkcqSljWY

— François Chollet (@fchollet) December 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/cooltimesonline/status/1603617440977805313
https://twitter.com/jonbradyphoto/status/1603665293334745088

Now Elon has removed space from twitter, can you give me a space in your heart? pic.twitter.com/IoYzQ2QmfX

— kolade🌵 (@toosuave_) December 16, 2022

Suspended accounts can still freely use Twitter Spaces to both talk and listen.

Top tier coding at Twitter pic.twitter.com/oDx74Wroes

— Oliver Alexander (@OAlexanderDK) December 16, 2022

One has to admire the fact how bluntly Elon Musk demonstrates what an Orwellian farce his free speech approach is. https://t.co/CJtpOce5Z9

— Kim Todzi (@KimTodzi) December 16, 2022

Dude coulda had it all. He coulda built spaceships and future cars, people would’ve loved him. Solved cold fusion. He coulda had a Fortnite skin and ended up next to Edison and Tesla in the history books without ever having to work a day in his life. But instead he chose… this. https://t.co/UzEYqfU1wx

— Aidan Moher (@adribbleofink) December 16, 2022

This was always a lie, but tonight made it obvious.

Elon Musk is a reactionary extremist who hates real free speech. He wants to make this site a safe space for neo-nazis, liars, spammers, morons, and scammers. https://t.co/F5iM7CHfi2

— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) December 16, 2022

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