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Twitter will ban its users from linking to other social media if it is for the sole purpose of promoting other social platforms.
It is also forbidden to post a username from other social media platforms on Twitter. Accounts where this happens can be removed, a thread on the network says.
Links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post platforms are prohibited. Links to sites like Linktree referencing these social media platforms are also disallowed.
Twitter says it will continue to be allowed to post content to Twitter from other social media platforms, including the aforementioned networks. We also allow paid advertising/promotions for any prohibited social media platforms.
Paid blue check mark
Different penalties are conceivable for a violation of the rules, to say Chirping. This ranges from deleting tweets and temporarily blocking an account to permanent suspension if it occurs more than once.
Accounts of people who reference another platform in their Twitter bio or account name can also be temporarily blocked or deleted altogether.
This policy change follows previous changes made after Elon Musk acquired Twitter. The billionaire has laid off top management and thousands of other employees following his takeover.
There is also talk of the blue check Musk wants to charge accounts, and former US President Trump has been allowed back in after being removed from Twitter for his comments on the storming of the Capitol in early 2021.
Disapproval of suspended journalists
Musk already suspended the accounts of several top tech journalists last week. He accused them of leaking personal information about his travel habits. The @elonjet account was removed because it kept the flight data of the entrepreneur’s private plane.
But yesterday, the journalists’ accounts were reinstated after Musk asked users to vote for their return in an online Twitter poll. Around the world, there has been outrage over the suspension of journalists due to the information they have shared through the medium.
