Mike Masnick ✅And.... now Matt Binder just disappeared.
Tajar@mmasnick Wow.
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@mmasnick Holy shit. Matt freaking Binder?
Steven Bodzin
Ken White@mmasnick Is Elon flipping out or is this some bad automated stuff?
Grumble
Lizard
Sean Harding
Nick "Neiloch" 
Chet_Manley_1988@chet_manley @Popehat @mmasnick Yeah but apparently that's ALL the info he has gotten. No explanation at all.
Mike Smith@Popehat I have no idea. I'm... confused at how it could be automated.
🏴 Greg Sideyr 
🤖ScottsRobots🤖@ScottMonaghan @mmasnick @Popehat apparently all the accounts have tweeted about the jet account recently, so that's what it's looking like
Xtoff (@[email protected])
"Suspended" is trending on Twitter right now. All of the suspended accounts I'm finding (thanks archive.org) have "@ElonJet" in one of their last tweets. A few notable accounts were just suspended, like Twitter just turned on "Elon's Jet" rule today, or just got out of a meeting about whether or not they should suspend said accounts. https://twitter.com/search?q=Suspended&src=trend_click&f=live&vertical=trends
MetaPizza
Biohazard@Biohazardous @Popehat seriously. i'm not high profile enough it seems
falun@mmasnick @Popehat large scale brigading triggering automated suspensions pending automatic review... and if there isn't anyone to review (or a huge backlog or everybody is too on edge to contradict a ban) 🤷
i never worked on those systems so this is just as wild of a guess as anybody else could make
becca
Joé McKen
Nicholas Weaver
Long Truong
Abner Germanow
The Urban Dragon
Matt Quirion@mmasnick @Popehat I'd be completely unshocked to learn that some competent-enough-to-be-dangerous techno bootlicker offered to write up a script to give Elon push-button account killing that's - shocker - a little overzealous. But I'd also not be shocked to find out it's just the world's 2nd richest person choosing to be a miserable dweeb.
E.G. PhillipsElon (Flipping Out): Remaining Twitter Employee, write me a SQL query that selects all accounts that have mentioned the account tracking my jet.
Remaining Twitter Employee: What should I do with the results?
Elon (Still Flipping Out): Ban them all!
(insert Game of Thrones mad king shouting "burn them all" gif here)
Eddie Dinel
Adam on an 🐘
Bec Bradway
Dan Gillmor
James@dangillmor @Popehat @mmasnick I wonder if it’s related to this in some way? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/twitter-progressives-hit-list-far-right-false-complaints_n_638951a1e4b07115f8587fa6/amp
yikesahootie@Popehat @mmasnick on https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ there's a link to a story about germany potentially issuing an expensive fine if reported tweets remain up after 24 hours. I could see automated takedowns and weaponised reports becoming an issue if it's true.
Justin Schuh@Popehat @mmasnick Almost certainly bad automated stuff being triggered by a huge volume of fraudulent user reports. Normally you have humans in the loop. Granted, those humans are barely trained contractors following a script and paid a miniscule wage in the cheapest country you can find, but it at least adds a check against this sort of mass failure. However, word is that Twitter isn't even paying for that anymore, so... 🤷
Context: I used to be responsible for the Google Chrome safety teams
YnoT
Bianca@Popehat His Asperger’s and bipolar disorder are clearly unmanaged. Too bad his family hasn’t staged an intervention.
Kryten
Look, Here’s The Thing@Popehat or is Elon himself some bad automated stuff
Seasons@mmasnick Donie O'Sullivan was just suspended immediately after posting this tweet #JoinMastodon
sorrykb
HopefulButDisgusted@mmasnick
I’m so over Musk. He’s just a petulant man-child.
Between him, Trump, Kanye and GOP, really would like 2023 to be the year narcissistic men fade away and normalcy & decency ring true again.
Gojira1000@mmasnick So freedom, much speech!
Laffy@mmasnick WTH? Matt?? Sigh.
@mmasnick Bari must be prepping her 60 post thread to deal with this injustice any moment.
Serqetry@mmasnick Matt Binder needs to get on Mastodon.
Kevin Hardiman@mmasnick he’s so f-cked. I have zero sympathy.
Jeff Kosseff
Andy Geronimo