Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet

Twitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, probably the most standard locations for individuals in search of a Twitter-like different. For those who 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 might not have been achieved fully out of spite for a rival platform. As an alternative, 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 lively profile from 12:39PM ET, however an archive from 6:12PM ET exhibits the suspended web page. On the archive of the lively profile, there’s a tweet pointing to @ElonJet’s Mastodon account.

On Wednesday, Twitter suspended @ElonJet and @ElonJet’s creator and introduced a new policy in opposition to sharing dwell location data. That includes sharing “hyperlinks to Third-party URL(s) of journey 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 current layoffs, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Mastodon additionally hasn’t replied to a request for remark.