Twitter has announced this Sunday that it will begin prevent your users from posting links to other social networks like Facebook, Instagram or Mastodon or that share the username they use on those competing platforms.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we already we will not allow free promotion of certain platforms of social networks on Twitter,” the company owned by Elon Musk explained in a message.
The movement comes after in recent weeks many tweeters critical of Musk’s management have begun to promote their profiles on other networks, especially some like Mastodon or Post that are a direct alternative to Twitter.
The measure, however, has a very broad scope and can lead to the suspension of any user who shares content from certain competing platforms, specifically Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr.
According to an update posted on its website, Twitter will remove all links to these social networks or messages that share the username that tweeters use in them and, in addition, it will prohibit the use of popular link aggregators such as Linktree.
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In case of violations of this new policy, Twitter explains that if it is something isolated or a first violation, the user can see deleted tweets or see temporarily blocked access to their account.
Any further violation, meanwhile, will lead to a permanent Suspension, assures the company, which also indicated that it will suspend any account whose “main objective is to promote content on another social platform.”