Twitter Roundup: Local Man bans journalists, Kills Twitter Spaces, Gets Warned by EU

Here is everything that happened in the Elon Musk’s Twitterverse in the past 24 hours (hint..it’s a lot) 👇 (1/5🧵) pic.twitter.com/nJstB3QH5h— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) December 16, 2022Musk bans links to competitor Mastodon and suspends the account, for “security reasons”. People are now calling it “the elephant app”.ICYMI: Twitter Spaces was basically Clubhouse but on Twitter. There were a few news spaces, and the ones about getting jobs in tech always ended up on my TL, or putting scammers on blast.Well, yesterday, Twitter banned a variety of journalists who reported on the Twitter account that tracked the CEO’s plane using publicly available data.Twitter has a glitch where banned accounts can still be in Twitter Spaces, and some did just that, talking about what had happened and Mr. Freeze Peach’s hypocrisy.Well, who should appear in a space than Local Man himself! He continued to criticizes the reporters and left in a hissy fit.After he left — And you can hear his monotone audio here — the Spaces feature began to act up before being pulled shortly afterward. Now, nobody can use it because Apartheid Clyde got his feelings hurt. He claims he’s fixing a legacy bug, and that it shold be back tomorrow
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