Users of social media platforms currently owned by Tesla founders may have their accounts suspended if they include links to Meta-owned platforms or others such as Mastodon and Truth Social.
Twitter users will no longer be able to connect to a number of rival social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
“Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content containing links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social , Tribel, Nostr and Post,” he added.
Twitter did not explain why the blacklist included these seven sites and not others.
The practice of linking to other social media platforms is so pervasive that it’s unclear whether – or how – the company will enforce the restrictions.
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Twitter also says it bans ads from third-party social media link aggregators like Linktree.
” We realize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms, however, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter”
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded to the tweet by simply asking, “Why?”and in another post the move “makes no sense”.
His tenure began with the layoffs of top executives and half of the global workforce and has so far seen several changes to the “Twitter blue” paid service.
Last week, Twitter disbanded the Safety and Trust Council, a group of volunteers founded in 2016 to advise the social media platform on important decisions.
Mastodon has grown rapidly in recent weeks as an alternative to Twitter users unhappy with the Tesla founder’s Twitter overhaul since he bought the platform for $44 billion at the end of the year. October.
Twitter says it will still allow “advertising/paid advertising” from other banned platforms.
