Twitter will not enable customers to advertise their presence on sure social platforms, together with Fb, Instagram, Mastodon, Fact Social, Tribel, Nostr and Publish. In an article describing these changesTwitter says it is going to take motion towards customers who violate this coverage “each on the Tweet stage and on the account stage.”
Because of this customers can not embody hyperlinks to their profiles on different social networks of their Twitter bio, or ship tweets encouraging customers to take a look at their Instagram or Fb accounts. The coverage would not simply embody hyperlinks from different platforms both; this even extends to posting usernames or aliases from competing platforms with out URLs.
Moreover, customers can not tweet posts from the banned platforms until it’s cross-posted, which implies the identical put up have to be shared on each the competing website. and Twitter. Twitter might also droop accounts “used for the first objective of selling content material on one other social platform” and can not enable customers to hyperlink to third-party hyperlink aggregators, comparable to Linktree or Lnk.bio. Regardless of all this, Twitter remains to be comfortable with paid promotion of those banned platforms (though this function doesn’t seem to be available yet):
We acknowledge that some social media platforms present various experiences to Twitter and permit customers to put up content material to Twitter from these platforms. Normally, any sort of cross-posting on our platform is just not in violation of this coverage, even from the prohibited websites listed above. Moreover, we enable paid commercials/promotions for all prohibited social media platforms.
Twitter says it is going to take away any tweets containing coverage violations and should quickly droop customers with hyperlinks to banned social platforms of their profiles. It can additionally take motion towards customers who try to bypass this coverage by cloaking URLs to different platforms or ‘spelling ‘interval’ for social media platforms that use ‘.’ in names to keep away from creating URLs or sharing screenshots of your ID on a prohibited social media platform.”
Different platforms, like Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, Weibo, and OnlyFans stay proof against the Twitter ban in the intervening time, and the motivation behind banning hyperlinks to some networks and never others is unclear. is unclear.
Twitter already blocks links to Twitter Mastodon contest on the platform stage. Attempting to tweet a hyperlink to a number of Mastodon servers or the location itself ends in an error message stating, “We will not fulfill this request as a result of this hyperlink has been recognized by Twitter or our companions as probably dangerous. We do not know if Twitter will finally disable hyperlinks from banned platforms in the identical approach, however on the time of writing it seems that customers are nonetheless in a position to put up hyperlinks from these networks.
In response to the Twitter help thread concerning the new coverage, the previous Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, replied “Why?” Dorsey recently donated approximately $245,000 to the event of the decentralized social community Nostr, which is included within the Twitter ban. Dorsey says Twitter’s blocking of the community “would not make sense,” and his username Nostr is at the moment listed in his Twitter bio, probably placing him prone to suspension. The sting contacted Twitter for extra data on its new insurance policies, however didn’t instantly reply.
This all follows a chaotic week for Twitter which noticed the suspension of many journalists – together with CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan and The New York Instances‘ Ryan Mac – after tweeting about @ElonJet, a Twitter account now banned who tracked the placement of the billionaire’s non-public jet. Musk claims reporters “doxxed” his location, and later Twitter applied a coverage that prohibits “stay location data” in addition to “hyperlinks to third-party journey route URLs.” Whereas Musk then reinstated most of the banned accounts after asking customers whether or not Twitter ought to elevate their suspensions, it briefly suspended The Washington Publish journalist Taylor Lorenz for “prior doxxing action.”
Replace, 2:39 p.m. ET: Up to date so as to add Dorsey’s response and extra context surrounding his funding in Nostr.
