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April 7, 2023 6 mins

Today is my seventh day of Twitter limbo. On March 31st, I became Elon Musk’s mother for several hours. But the account was put into a type of quarantine. My username replaced by a dot, my photo removed, I cannot log in. But my profile, with the years-old blue check still stands like a head on a pike warning others that Elon Musk has mommy issues.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://www.masonpelt.com/a-blue-check-on-a-pike-warns-us-not-to-give-up-the-web/


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