Twitter Kills Audio Feature After Musk Rants At Journos

Gizmodo reports:

Twitter Spaces, the audio feature that allows people to participate in group chats using the social media platform, has been disabled and it’s not clear whether it will ever return.

The move comes after Elon Musk joined a group chat hosted by BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos on Thursday night, where the Twitter CEO spoke incoherently about his new rules around what the billionaire called “doxxing.”

Musk banned at least 10 different journalists on Thursday night that he alleges shared his location in real time. In reality, those journalists were merely reporting on the controversy surrounding the @ElonJets Twitter account, which pulls publicly available information about various aircraft.

Read the full article. At the link you’ll find a quote-by-quote recounting of Musk’s discussion with journalists last night. Twitter Spaces allowed users to listen live during chats by invited speakers, typically experts, activists, and journalists.