Twitter no longer allows what the platform calls “free promotion”, especially for Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon. Users who will go against these regulations risk suspension of their account.
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Elon Musk goes to war against Twitter competitive social networks. In a press release, published on Sunday December 18, the company writes that “Twitter no longer authorizes the free promotion of certain social networks on Twitter”, specifying that Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr are affected, that “links to social media aggregators like Linkr.ee, NK.Bio”. He becomes prohibited from tweeter: “Please follow me @IDIDENTIFIANT on Instagram”.
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Users who will go against these regulations risk suspension of their account: “If violations of the rule remain an isolated act or a first offense, we can take a certain number of measures ranging from the deletion of ‘One or more tweets to the temporary locking of account (s), “explains Twitter. But “any recurrence will lead to a permanent suspension”, warns the platform.
Tweets are not the only ones to be concerned by this new policy, since the biography and the name of the user cannot contain a link, also under penalty of temporary, even permanent suspension. >
These new rules are announced while many Twitter users have recently said they are considering migrating to other platforms, which most likely concerns the new boss of the company based in San Francisco. The change also aroused the misunderstanding of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, a company he left in 2021. “Why?”, He soberly tweeted.
@twittersupport why?
suspension then reinstatement of journalists’ accounts
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for $ 44 billion, wants to be a fervent defender of freedom of expression but sent contradictory messages: he restored accounts which were previously banished, including that of Donald Trump , but also suspended that of Kanye West after the publication of several messages deemed anti-Semitic and refused the return to the platform of the far-right conspirator, Alex Jones.
He had suspended the twitter accounts of several journalists earlier in the week, which he accused of putting his family in danger. The controversy had started on Wednesday when Tesla and SpaceX had announced to suspend @elonjet, an account that automatically reported the journeys of its private jet. Some accounts then tweeted about this decision. These were restored on Saturday, but some indicated that they were summoned to erase certain publications if they wanted to fully use the platform.
Saturday evening, the Twitter account of Taylor Lorenz / A>, a journalist from the Washington Post who covers the technology sector for the daily life was suspended by decision by Elon Musk before being restored on Sunday. Taylor Lorenz explained that she asked Elon Musk via Twitter, for an article she is writing, because she couldn’t join him by traditional channels.
Sally Buzbee, chief editor of the Washington Post , wrote in a statement written that the “arbitrary suspension of another Journalist of the post undermines the assertion of Elon Musk according to which he intends to make Twitter a platform dedicated to freedom of expression “.
The boss of Twitter attracted the wrath of the European Union and the United Nations, the vice-president of the European Commission even threatening him with sanctions.