The Atlanta metal group shares a name with a new Twitter alternative

Mastodon recently released their seventh studio album, Emperor of Sand. But it turns out the Atlanta metal group are not the only Mastodon in town; the band shares a name with a recently launched social media network called Mastodon, which touts itself as a “free, open-source social network” that is billed as an alternative to Twitter. As Mashable points out, the band have been having fun with this fact the past few days, quote-retweeting notable people posting about the new platform and promoting their new album. “To be fair, we made Mastodon happen a long time ago, but welcome to the game,” one tweet reads. They even went so far as to tag Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, saying, “Hey @Jack, we swear we have no intention of harming you. Not sure why people keep saying that.” Check out the tweets below, and check out Mastodon (the social media platform) here.