Twitter prohibits users from promoting accounts on Facebook, Mastodon

Twitter on Sunday stated that it’s going to take away accounts created solely for the aim of selling different social platforms and content material that accommodates hyperlinks or usernames.

The transfer would affect content material from social media platforms like Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, together with Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post whereas permitting cross-content posting, Twitter help stated in a tweet.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who not too long ago invested in social media platform Nostr, replied to the Twitter help put up with one phrase: “Why?.” In a reply to a different consumer posting in regards to the Nostr promotion ban, Dorsey stated, “doesn’t make sense.”

Short video-platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., was not included within the listing.

Last week, Twitter disbanded its Trust and Safety Council, a volunteer group shaped in 2016 to advise the social media platform on web site selections.

The coverage change follows different chaotic actions at Twitter since Elon Musk, who can also be the CEO of Tesla, purchased the social community. He fired high administration and laid off about half of its workforce, whereas seesawing on how a lot to cost for Twitter’s subscription service Twitter Blue.

Musk additionally suspended the accounts of a number of journalists over an argument on publishing public knowledge in regards to the billionaire’s aircraft.

Musk reinstated the accounts after criticism from authorities officers, advocacy teams and journalism organizations from a number of elements of the globe on Friday, with some saying the microblogging platform was jeopardizing press freedom.

(Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)