Live blog: Twitter chaos - Musk disables Spaces due to 'legacy bug' apparently

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It's now over a month since Elon Musk purchased Twitter on October 28 for $44 billion. Though given how wild this unpredictable rollercoaster has been you'd be forgiven for thinking it's been much longer since the Tesla and SpaceX CEO added another company to his portfolio.

Since the moment Musk waltzed into Twitter HQ with a bathroom sink (we cannot make this up), it's been fast-paced decisions, layoffs, firings, resignations, reinstatements, big-picture decisions, and last-minute reversals.

If you think that's a lot, strap in because the Tweeter-in-Chief shows no signs of slowing down the pace of change or the number of tweets he will post over the course of one day.

Things have slowed down a little, but we're still updating this live blog with all of the latest news so you can make sense of everything that's happening with Twitter and Elon Musk.

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Perhaps the most controversial thing to come from Musk's Twitter takeover has been the changes to how accounts are verified. 

Previously, if the verified account of a media outlet (such as TechRadar) or other organization published something, you would at least know that it came from an official source. The Blue Check also enabled Twitter users to tell the difference between the many celebrities on Twitter and users who were imitating them.

However, Musk implemented a change that would allow anyone to get verified for $8 a month.

This led to some people worrying that users could pretend to be official accounts and get easily verified, making it hard for people to tell which accounts were real – and which weren't. And that's exactly what happened.