He added that these suspensions would occur without prior notice.
Among the impersonators were comedians Kathy Griffin and Sarah Silverman. The latter tweeted“I’m a free speech absolutist and I eat breakfast every day” from her Musk impersonation account.
Both women’s accounts were suspended. Silverman was later refundedthough the remains of Griffin discontinued. Griffin returned to the platform using the account of his late mother, Maggie Griffin, and tweeted at Elon Musk. “I came back from the grave to say #freekathy,” she said. wroteusing a hashtag that his followers had picked up after his suspension.
After Musk joked that Griffin had been banned for “posing as a comedian,” he used his mother’s account to call him an “asshole” for stealing an old joke and asked him to “do a better job running this company.” “.
Griffin has announced that he will now use Mastodon, an ad-free, decentralized platform touted as a successor to Twitter. The site has more than 1 million users; more than 489,000 of them have joined since Musk took over Twitter, according to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko.
Comedians weren’t Musk’s only problem. Jack Dorsey, the founder and former CEO of Twitter, broke his silence on Twitter’s new regime and tweeted a bizarre half-apology to his former employees who were laid off.
