Twitter removed the Spaces feature after Elon Musk joined a chat room that included a journalist banned from Twitter. Musk stated that the feature will come back tomorrow.
Elon Muskcontinues to be at the top of the agenda with what it did after purchasing Twitter. The famous businessman, who says he constantly defends freedom of expression, has been making moves that contradict this recently. Today, Musk suspended the accounts of journalists from giant media companies such as CNN, The Washington Post, Mashable, The New York Times. This move drew reaction from the European Union and the United Nations.
Owner of Twitter, live chat feature of the platform in the past hours of Spaces joined a room. Some journalists were present here, including Drew Harrell, the Washington Post journalist who was banned from the platform. While saying that he continues to support freedom of expression in his speech, Musk said that he can also throw journalists who share information about himself that he does not like. When it was over, he left the room. Afterwards, there was an improvement in the Spaces feature.
Spaces is temporarily deprecated
Today, many users on the platform subscribe to Spaces. they couldn’t reach reported. Information from both Android and iOS users during the day revealed that Musk’s feature was partially removed from Twitter. In response to a question asked about this, Musk stated that this happened due to a bug, it will be fixed tomorrow.
First of all, let me state: There were also people from suspended accounts in the Spaces room that Musk attended. As you can see from the video above, The Washington Post journalist whose accounts have been suspended Drew Harrell and the ElonJet account that followed Musk’s jet was able to join the room. This is not supposed to happen normally; so there really is a bug with the feature. But under normal circumstances, this bug is silently fixed with an update. The strange part is that Musk overreacted by personalizing the subject and Twitter temporarily removed the feature without any notification.
We can guess what caused this. As it is known, Musk has been saying that he will bring freedom of expression on Twitter in recent months. But his moves were the opposite of that. The businessman closed accounts that made fun of him in this process, fired employees who criticized the platform, closed his ElonJet account despite saying he would not do this before, and finally suspended the accounts of journalists. This situation drew reactions from all over the world, including the authorities. In addition, the images that came out recently revealed that Musk was booed by thousands of people in a comedy show.
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The Spaces feature, which has made Twitter very successful in live chat rooms, is expected to be opened again for everyone tomorrow. Information from now that some Android users fixed the featureand web users can listen to the rooms; but reveals that he could not attend. The problem persists for iOS users.
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/16/23512930/elon-musk-twitter-spaces-washington-post-new-york-times-banned