Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly banned the accounts of one of its competitors and more than a half dozen tech journalists on Thursday night. Musk suggested that the users were banned because they shared information about the @ElonJet account that tracks the movements of Musk's private jet, which the Twitter CEO claims threatens his safety.
The first account Twitter suspended on Thursday was from Mastodon, a Twitter rival that has grown in popularity since Musk’s takeover of Twitter. The Mastodon account had just touted that @ElonJet had joined its platform after Twitter banned the account for violating a hastily-introduced rule against sharing someone's location.
