Elon Musk's Twitter blocked links to his rival Mastodon.

Elon Musk's Twitter sparked a global outcry on Thursday by suspending some of the bloodhounds of the major news outlets

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But a different and likely associated circulation that Twitter took on around the same time

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against a fast-growing rival, might need to open up business as much as regulatory scrutiny

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In addition to putting off journalists who had been covering a controversy related to the tracking

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tracking of the 1/3rd birthday party of Musk's personal jet

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the platform also suspended rival Mastodon's legitimate Twitter account after it tweeted about the ElonJet account.

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Twitter users began tweeting links to their Mastodon profiles, some half-jokingly telling fans to be determined

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on the platform of opportunity if they too have been banned from Twitter without caution.

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