Elon Musk’s Twitter suspends official account of rival Mastodon, blocks links to its servers

Along with blocking journalists covering a controversy over third parties tracking Musk's private jet, the platform also suspended the official Twitter account of competitor Mastodon after it tweeted about the same. However, soon after, Twitter began erecting barriers, preventing users from adding links to their profiles and blocking tweets containing links to Mastodon as potentially dangerous and unsafe.


The question of whether Twitter's blocking of Mastodon links has any regulatory or anticompetitive repercussions is currently being debated by lawyers.


A request for comment was not answered by Twitter, which recently reduced the size of its PR department. As information about the journalist suspensions spread, many Twitter users declared they were switching to Mastodon. However, the sudden limitations Twitter imposed on link-sharing prevented some attempts to point users toward the competing platform.

Falsely, Elon Musk claimed that the suspended journalists had broken Twitter's rules by sharing real-time information about his whereabouts. One of the suspended reporters disputed Elon Musk's claim that Musk dropped by on Thursday night to participate in a Twitter Spaces event, and the new owner of Twitter abruptly ended the chat. Eugen Rochko, the CEO cum founder of Mastodon, has highlighted a public report about Twitter's link blocking without addressing it specifically.

FAQs

Who is Mastodon's founder and CEO?
Eugen Rochko.

Why are Mastodon links not working on Twitter?
Twitter has deemed Mastodon links unsafe and thus blocked them on Twitter.

What is Mastodon?
Mastodon is an open-source software leading to other social media sites.