And just like that - the journalists are unsuspended from Twitter.

[Ms. Toad]

Musk announced that the people have spoken, and all those suspended for tweeting his exact location (even though none of them actually did that) are now unsuspended.

He lost two polls in a row the second, a 24-hour poll pitting unsuspend NOW against unsuspend in 7 days. (58.7 to 41.3)

[Salviati]

1. It shouldn't matter.

The fact that he did this at all means that journalists shouldn't be crying to be let back on to twitter, they should be leaving it en masse.

[Ms. Toad]

3. I completely agree -

But at least one is already back (in less than an hour after being unsuspended).

At a minimum, I'd figure out how to capture all of my content from the site - since you know it's only time until he throws a hissy fit again.

[dalton99a]

2. Praise the Great and Merciful Genius

[Ms. Toad]

5. Yeah, right.

My guess is he didn't expect the poll results . . . but he'd boxed himself in by narrowing the options to two. Doing the math on the first poll, 7 days should have won and I'm sure he was counting on it.

[Blue Owl]

4. Real chefs don't use cheap plastic utensils and styrofoam plates.

Real journalists don’t need to use cheap shit like Twitter.

[Ms. Toad]

6. I hope they find other sites to their liking,

and leave twitter without any substantive content.

I certainly wouldn't trust him not to ban on a whim again, in the near future.

[PortTack]

7. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Lucinda]

8. Good. He said he wants Twitter wide open ...so he should have brought them

back. Hopefully he will rethink what should and what should not be allowed

[RockRaven]

9. The lesson has been taught. People will self censor.

Not all. But some will.

[Ms. Toad]

17. Personally, I hope they self-censor themselves

Off to other locations. Many established new homes immediately - but will they stick to them more that the does in their old home is say least temporarily unlocked?

But you're right, if course. Actions like the journalist ban have a chilling effect on important speech.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Still banned: links to any Mastodon post from Twitter

Musk is still running with the bullshit claim that Mastodon is "potentially harmful". He's just pissed off that there's a significant move to Mastodon because of his antics, and, with no concern for "free speech", he wants to use his market power to hurt a smaller rival.

[Walleye]

11. Little Elon is a hot mess

[tanyev]

12. Praise be! The great and powerful Lord Skinsothin is feeling benevolent today!

[Arazi]

13. Well, it wasn't "just like that". It was after enormous backlash

Multiple media appearances by the banned journalists and accelerating erosion of trust in the site with this move

[Trenzalore]

14. Tesla is dropping like a rock

A few more of these temper tantrums and the board there might make a move. He doesn't own more than 50% of Tesla stock.

[Ms. Toad]

16. I was more commenting on how quickly

It was reversed, than why. The ban was permanent, initially. Then very quickly turned into a 7-day ban, which he expected to be supported by his airing fans on Twitter, and then vanished when Twitter votes against him.

Yes, there were lots of other things going on - but many of them have been going on since he took over.

[Arazi]

21. Agreed. It sucks it took such tremendous pressure to reverse this

[NickB79]

15. The EU threatened to sanction Twitter

They have laws that protect journalists.

Elon got his hand slapped good

[lees1975]

18. I really could not care less

what Elon Musk does. So what, who gives a damn?

[Ms. Toad]

20. I agree with you as to most of what he does.

This was a bit different, as the world-wife response should indicate.

Twitter had become one off the main ways for journalists to quickly disseminate minute by minute accounts of gay breaking news. So banning journalists is a big deal, in a way that a lot of his other antics haven't been.

[Wounded Bear]

19. The bots have spoken!

[Voltaire2]

22. The whole exercise was intended to let journalists know

that they will be banned at his majesty’s pleasure.

[EleanorR]

23. Not Linette Lopez

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