Twitter will not permit accounts created to advertise rival social networks, days after suspending an account that inspired customers to affix Mastodon.
“We will not permit free promotion of sure social media platforms on Twitter,” Twitter mentioned in a tweet thread on Sunday. “Specifically, we’ll take away accounts created solely for the aim of selling different social platforms and content material that incorporates hyperlinks or usernames for the next platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
Specifically, we’ll take away accounts created solely for the aim of selling different social platforms and content material that incorporates hyperlinks or usernames for the next platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
Twitter went on to say that the brand new coverage does not prohibit cross-posting of content material from different platforms.
After @Be a part ofMastodon was changed Thursday with a message that the account had been suspended for violating Twitter’s guidelines, Twitter started interfering with hyperlinks to Mastodon. Clicking on a Mastodon hyperlink on Twitter brings up a warning saying the hyperlink was “probably spammy or unsafe.”
Twitter has been considerably chaotic since Elon Musk accomplished his buy of Twitter on Oct. 27. About half the Twitter workers was laid off solely days after Musk took cost, and the location briefly launched a brand new “blue verify” verification service solely to be plagued with trolls and pretend “verified” accounts.
On Thursday, the social community additionally suspended a number of journalists — together with from The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN — claiming they violated its guidelines. A day earlier, Twitter suspended over two dozen accounts on the location that use publicly out there flight info to trace the situation of personal jets, together with the airplane utilized by Twitter proprietor Musk.
The new coverage comes as many individuals are opting out of Twitter in favor of the decentralized social community Mastodon. In the primary two weeks after Musk’s buy, Mastodon gained 1 million new customers, mentioned Eugen Rochko, Mastodon’s creator. That put the community’s whole round 1.6 million energetic customers — nonetheless only a tiny fraction of Twitter’s 238 million.
Twitter, which not has a communications division, did not instantly reply to a request for remark.