Twitter announced on Sunday that it will no longer allow users to include links to other social networks in their posts, the latest policy change for the company under its controversial new owner, Elon Musk.
Source: AFP
The measurement takes place after users will start to encourage their followers to see their posts on other platformsin the middle of the changes to Twitter since Muskone of the richest men in the world, take control of the company eight weeks ago.
“In the future, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platformssaid the network on Sunday in a statement on its website.
He specified that this will affect seven platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribal, Post and Nostr)as well as social media aggregators, such as linktr.ee and ink.bio.
A) Yes, For example, posting “Follow me @username on Instagram” will be prohibited.said Twitter.
Twitter user who highlights their latest Instagram photo, or a Facebook post, will be exposed to an account suspension. The blue bird social network provides for the same penalty for those who mention their name or Twitter biography your other social media accounts.
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Users violating this for the first time will face actions “ranging from request the deletion of one or more tweets until the temporary blocking of the account(s)said Twitter.
And he warned:any repeat offenses will result in a permanent suspension“.
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, questioned the new policy with a one-word tweet: “Why?”
CHANGES UNDER MUSK
The measure of Twitter It is the latest in a growing series of controversies generated by Musk. since he bought the platform at the end of October for 44,000 million dollars.
In the last days, Musk suspended the accounts of several journaliststhe most recent this Sunday, from a Washington Post reporter, Taylor Lorenzafter complaining that some they had divulged details about the routes of their private plane that could endanger your family.
Also, shortly after taking over Twitter, Musk announced that the site would charge $8 per month to verify the identities of account holders.. But had to suspend the questioned “Twitter Blue” plan after an embarrassing spate of fake accounts.
On November 4, when Musk said that the company lost 4 million dollars a day, Twitter laid off half of its 7,500 employees.
Musk also restored accounts suspended by the social network, including that of former US President Donald Trump. But also canceled that of rapper Kanye West after the publication of several messages considered antisemitic. Y rejected the return to Twitter of Alex Jonesfounder of far-right website InfoWars.
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The recent suspension of journalists’ accounts (including employees of CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post) It has generated strong criticismeven from the European Union and the United Nations.
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC)which promotes consumer rights and the elimination and prevention of anti-competitive practices, said that he was following what was happening on Twitter “with deep concern”.
Several of the suspended journalist accounts were reactivated on Saturdayalthough some said they had been told that they would have to remove certain posts if they wanted to make full use of from the platform.
