Twitter to ban users from promoting rival social platforms
Twitter has announced that it would no longer allow users to promote their accounts on various social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.
The controversial owner Elon Musk announced this on Monday, which is one of the company’s various policy changes recently.
The move also affects Mastodon, Post, and Truth Social as well as third-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee and ink.bio comes after users started encouraging their followers to view their posts elsewhere amid the sea changes at Twitter.
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Elon Musk, in a statement, said, “Going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms,
“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 (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter or providing your handle without a URL,” the company explained.
Users would thus be barred, for example, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter said.
First-time violators will face actions “ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s),” Twitter said.
“Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension.”
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey questioned the new policy with a one word tweet: “Why?”
