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Twitter censors mentioning its other accounts on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram & Co, then backs down

Update: Twitter has, without explanation, deleted his tweet (archive.org) as well as the page (archive.org) explaining that it would censor links to other social networks… and Elon Musk launched a investigation to ask if she should stop running Twitter after him tweeted That ” in the future, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. This won’t happen again ».

Twitter « will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms “, a tweeted the @TwitterSupport account, which looks like “ there to help “the social network bought by Elon Musk to improve and promote freedom of expression (“ free speech »).

Up Policy for the promotion of alternative social platforms specifies that all identifiers of Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr, qualified as “ prohibited platforms », third-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee or lnk.bio, as well as their mentions, such as:

  • « Follow me @username on Instagram »
  • « name d’[email protected] »
  • « check out my facebook profile – facebook.com/username »
  • « Instagram dot com/username »

on Twitter Threat « take a variety of actions ranging from deleting one or more Tweets to temporarily blocking an account “, but also that” any recurrence will result in a permanent suspension ».

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