Dec 22, 2022 10:56:00

Even after Earon Mask declares unfreezing, the journalist's account remains inoperable until he deletes a specific tweet

On December 14, 2022, the account ``ElonJet (

@ElonJet )'' that tweeted the takeoff and landing information of Mr. Elon Musk's private jet was frozen , and the accounts of several journalists who reported the freezing of ElonJet were suddenly frozen. An embarrassing situation has occurred . After that, Mr. Mask was unfreezing in response to the results of the questionnaire ``Should the journalist's account be revived?'' It looks like it, but in fact the account is still in a state of being unusable.'

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The Twitter account `` ElonJet '' that started the problem was an account that analyzed the public information of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to determine the takeoff and landing information of Mr. Mask's private jet. Mr. Mask asked ElonJet todelete the account in January 2022, but negotiations broke down. After that, ElonJet's activities continued, but it was frozen on December 14, 2022. The freezing of ElonJet was reported by several journalists, but immediately after the report, the journalists' accounts were frozen, and several media outlets were protesting Mr. Mask.

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After freezing the journalists' accounts, Mr. Mask conducted a questionnaire on his Twitter account asking whether or not to unfreeze the journalists' accounts. As a result of the questionnaire, Mr. Mask lifted the freeze because the majority of the opinions were in favor of unfreezing.

Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022

Below is the account of Micah Lee, one of the journalists who reported the freezing of ElonJet and had his account frozen. If you check your account at the time of article creation, you can view your profile and it does not appear to be frozen.

However, if you look at the list of tweets, you can see that there are tweets that are displayed as 'This tweet violates the Twitter rules' and are not viewable. You can also see that no new tweets have been posted since December 16, 2022.

According to Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee's account seems to have been unfrozen at first glance, but Twitter has notified that `` it will not be unlocked until you delete the `` tweet introducing ElonJet's Mastodon account ''. It has arrived, and it is said that the account cannot be operated.

Mr. Lee is not the only one to report a situation where 'on the surface it seems to have been unfrozen, but in reality it has not.' For example, Drew Harwell, a journalist belonging to the Washington Post, also revealed that he received a notification from Twitter that 'the account cannot be used until a specific tweet is deleted.' Even if you access Mr. Harwell's Twitter account at the time of writing the article, it does not appear to be frozen, but according to Mr. Harwell, the situation continues that it is impossible to use the account normally and display the tweets of the accounts you are following. It is said that there is.