SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter introduced Sunday it might not permit customers to advertise their accounts on a number of social media platforms together with fb and Instagram — the newest coverage trade through the corporate underneath its arguable new proprietor Elon Musk,
The transfer — which additionally impacts MastodonPost and Truth Social in addition to third-party social media hyperlink aggregators equivalent to linktr.ee and ink.bio — comes after customers began encouraging their fans to view their posts in different places, amid the ocean adjustments at Twitter.
“Going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms,” it stated in a remark.
“At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (ie using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL,” the corporate defined.
Users would thus be barred, for instance, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter stated.
First-time violators will face movements “ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s),” Twitter stated.
“Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension.”
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wondered the brand new coverage with a one-word tweet: “Why?”
The transfer was once the newest in a rising collection of controversies generated through the mercurial billionaire within the couple of minutes since he purchased Twitter in overdue October, together with layoffs and reinstatement of a few far-right accounts.
In fresh days, Musk suspended the accounts of a number of reporters — maximum lately, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz — after complaining some had divulged information about the actions of his non-public jet that might endanger his circle of relatives.
Shortly after taking on the platform, he introduced the website online would fee $8 monthly to ensure account holders’ identities, however needed to droop the “Twitter Blue” plan after an embarrassing rash of pretend accounts. It has since been relaunched.
On November 4, with Musk pronouncing the corporate was once dropping $4 million an afternoon, Twitter laid off part its 7,500-strong workforce.
Musk additionally reinstated the account of banned former president Donald Trump and stated Twitter would not paintings to struggle Covid-19 disinformation.
The suspension of the reporters — staff of CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post had been amongst the ones affected — has drawn sharp grievance, together with from the European Union and the United Nations.
The US Federal Trade Commission stated it was once monitoring tendencies on Twitter “with deep concern.”
Washington Post government editor Sally Buzbee stated the suspension of Lorenz’s account “further undermines Elon Musk’s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech.”
Some of the suspended accounts have since been reactivated.
The transfer — which additionally impacts MastodonPost and Truth Social in addition to third-party social media hyperlink aggregators equivalent to linktr.ee and ink.bio — comes after customers began encouraging their fans to view their posts in different places, amid the ocean adjustments at Twitter.
“Going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms,” it stated in a remark.
“At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (ie using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL,” the corporate defined.
Users would thus be barred, for instance, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter stated.
First-time violators will face movements “ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s),” Twitter stated.
“Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension.”
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wondered the brand new coverage with a one-word tweet: “Why?”
The transfer was once the newest in a rising collection of controversies generated through the mercurial billionaire within the couple of minutes since he purchased Twitter in overdue October, together with layoffs and reinstatement of a few far-right accounts.
In fresh days, Musk suspended the accounts of a number of reporters — maximum lately, Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz — after complaining some had divulged information about the actions of his non-public jet that might endanger his circle of relatives.
Shortly after taking on the platform, he introduced the website online would fee $8 monthly to ensure account holders’ identities, however needed to droop the “Twitter Blue” plan after an embarrassing rash of pretend accounts. It has since been relaunched.
On November 4, with Musk pronouncing the corporate was once dropping $4 million an afternoon, Twitter laid off part its 7,500-strong workforce.
Musk additionally reinstated the account of banned former president Donald Trump and stated Twitter would not paintings to struggle Covid-19 disinformation.
The suspension of the reporters — staff of CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post had been amongst the ones affected — has drawn sharp grievance, together with from the European Union and the United Nations.
The US Federal Trade Commission stated it was once monitoring tendencies on Twitter “with deep concern.”
Washington Post government editor Sally Buzbee stated the suspension of Lorenz’s account “further undermines Elon Musk’s claim that he intends to run Twitter as a platform dedicated to free speech.”
Some of the suspended accounts have since been reactivated.