Twitter bans users from linking to Facebook, Instagram and other rival platforms

Twitter users will no longer be able to link to a number of rival social media websites, including Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.

On Sunday, Twitter Support tweeted that it will"no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter". "Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post," it added.And"links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above", such as Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn, are still permitted, it said.

If the accounts are mainly for promoting other platforms. A normal user isn't promoting other platforms all the time.

Perfect. I hate Facebook.

One more reason to vote YES 👇🏼

It's been reversed already, the tweets deleted, apologised on his account, and was the catalyst for the ceo poll ..sky news breaking out of date news.

Old news, they already ditched the policy hours ago

Oh yyyyeeehh

Seems pretty clear. If you promote another site, get banned. If you post non promotional content you're ok. Maybe Sky should learn about Tech. There are other ways to restrict users other than stopping them replying to some of their posts. 🤣🤣

It's all about control! Elon is a vile, lying cretin. He's just another trump!

facebook what are your thoughts

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Best news I've heard today. Well done elonmusk keep the good times rolling 👊

SkyNews is just a propaganda network 🙈🙈🙈😂😂😂🤟✌️

Twitter is in the Bin good job Elon

Facebook I thought that was for 8 year old girls?

elonmusk love what you're doing, but banning links to other social media, not a good idea.

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Beautiful beautiful

elonmusk and I will work something out. This is about a state-of-the-art messaging app that will be the best in the world, currently in development. Based on its design, everything you're using right now is obsolete. It started out originally designed for Twitter.

Have sky news reported on the purge of pedophile content on the platform? Or just happy with the one sided news as usual?

I've just posted this to fb,, it's working,,,why the lies?

Misleading headline. Its not a ban on posting these links. Its a ban on accounts whose sole purpose is to promote the other platforms

Great from Twitter

Neither Marc Tarpenning nor Martin Eberhard own Twitter. You could have left that claim out entirely instead of producing false information. This is pathetic journalism.

I wonder if they bother to check if the profiles people link to are real? I’ve added a fake Mastodon profile to my bio. Just to see what happens.

Nope, try again fake news and you might manage to report the story accurately. Cross Links are still allowed but don't let that get in the way of your spaceship man bad narrative, journalism my arse 😑

What is Twitter scared of?!

Why are you linking out of twitter in this very post then?

Funny when it works the other way 🤣🤣🤣

'Free Speech' I've supported Elon, but this is going too far.

Very misleading tweet, as usually these days from SlyNews, changing the wording to suit them. Go back to telling the news without bias and with the facts all out there

wtf?

Another of elonmusk great ideas 💡 People are posting links to their other accounts as they don’t give a **** about Twitter? TwitterSafety doesn’t have enough of a client base for anyone to take notice of Elon’s demands? As he found out with the sign up rate for blue tick?😂

How often does promote BBCWorld ?

Is that really what Twitter did? It looks more like banning accounts created for the ‘sole’ purpose of linking to other sites. Does allow comments in their stories to just link to other news sites?

What’s really going on ?

'Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms”. “We will still allow people to cross-post content from any social media platform'.

In fairness, you can't link to TikTok from and Instagram story, so they're all at it.

The headline is misleading

This whole freedom theme is going well Elon 🙄

Not quite as sensational as the headline reads though is it... But why let that spoil a good story.

I read their rules and not sure if they allow a link out from Instagram to Twitter page as their blurb is hard to fathom. Have asked for clarification on here and via feedback form.

But not MYSPACE! Tom be bribing Elon for sure…

Musk the king of snowflakes

He simply doesn't want to be associated with other platforms pushing left wing only narratives by ghosting right leaning opinions. Good move from Elon.

And?

I ban users from linking to Twitter. So bet it.

Kill Facebook 😎

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