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[Absurdist Laughter]

This new policy is incredibly retarded and will actually affect normies. Of course people will want to share their other social media presences. I don't know what Musk is thinking.

He may be inviting antitrust legal action as well.

I think it is more targeting accounts that do nothing but use Twitter as Free advertisement. Least that is the interpretation I concluded after reading that Tweet. Sort of like I wouldn't want an employee or volunteer bad mouthing the charity or business while actively participating on the platform or entity I work for. Maybe not a precise analogy considering it is individuals who don't work for Twitter.

 

[AnOminous]

Didn't she claim it was permanent?

The bitch lies. A lot.

 

[Barry McKockner]

Pretty please can we have Elon cutting off EU access for christmas?????

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

This new policy is incredibly retarded and will actually affect normies. Of course people will want to share their other social media presences. I don't know what Musk is thinking.

He may be inviting antitrust legal action as well.

Reading the policy closely, it says that if it's main purpose of the account it *may* be banned. It's sneakily worded just for those reasons.

While I'm sure a lot of it has to do with some accounts leaving and basically just posting occasional "I've left Twitter, follow me on:" messages, a lot of the bot accounts also do a similar thing where they try to link out. I assume it won't be enforced very hard or will go through a major re-phrasing because of the obvious problems with the policy.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Reading the policy closely, it says that if it's main purpose of the account it *may* be banned. It's sneakily worded just for those reasons. While I'm sure a lot of it has to do with some accounts leaving and basically just posting occasional "I've left Twitter, follow me on:" messages, a lot of the bot accounts also do a similar thing where they try to link out. I assume it won't be enforced very hard or will go through a major re-phrasing because of the obvious problems with the policy.

• Do not plea for sympathy. Don't make posts about how you are leaving the forums. Just leave.

It’s an autistic version of the above. Still dumb imo but Musk is anything but good at listening to people tell him he made a mistake.

 

[The Line]

This new rule is dumb.

Twitter's appeal as a public figure's marketfront no longer exists. There will be a large twitter-sized hole on the Internet to fill this role and it'll be interesting to see what does.

 

[Norbert the Tiger]

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TikTok needs to be included in the ban, although I'm not sure this is such a good policy overall.

 

[Hannibalistique]

This new rule is dumb.

Twitter's appeal as a creator's (or any public figure's) marketfront no longer exists.

Are seriously people unable to actually read the rules?

They are only banning dummy accounts that _only_ link off-site, they are not banning mentioning other sites or linking elsewhere.

Jesus.

 

[The Line]

Are seriously people unable to actually read the rules?

They are only banning dummy accounts that _only_ link off-site, they are not banning mentioning other sites or linking elsewhere.

"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:"

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

They're not banning accounts that are not solely made to link offsite but you will still be penalized for mentioning/linking an account of these competitors.


"If violations of this policy are an isolated incident or first offense, we may take a number of actions ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s). Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension."

 

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It's a pretty bad move imo. I see where he is coming from, but this is going to have a ripple effect over the industry which will hurt everybody.

Cross promotion is a win-win. Publishers don't need to put in much effort and they consolidate their audience, whereas the platform gets more content in turn, so more users.

With this type of situation, when you promote any social media, you are also promoting all the others you link to on your YT, IG, Twitch, Twitter etc... You might not bring new users over there, but it does contribute with engagement.

Now, it's going to be all out war between all parties with link reciprocity. And the user experience on Twitter is going to suffer.

 

[Barry McKockner]

"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:"

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

They're not banning accounts that are not solely made to link offsite but you will still be penalized for mentioning/linking an account of these competitors.


"If violations of this policy are an isolated incident or first offense, we may take a number of actions ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s). Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension."

Cross posting and linking will be fine. Just no creating a twitter account just to advertise your shit and not contribute.

 

[Involuntary Celebrity]

Do any of you monkeys remember what people used to do before shit like linktree?
I'd love if this resulted in a bit of a restoration of the personal homepage. It's not that major an effort if you aren't a braindead thot for people actually running a business, and any degree of decentralisation would be kinda great. I miss that shit.

 

[Hannibalistique]

"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:"

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

They're not banning accounts that are not solely made to link offsite but you will still be penalized for mentioning/linking an account of these competitors.


"If violations of this policy are an isolated incident or first offense, we may take a number of actions ranging from requiring deletion of one or more Tweets to temporarily locking account(s). Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension."

I guess the answer to my question was yes, I was in fact unable to read the rules.

 

[Kiwisee]

Do any of you monkeys remember what people used to do before shit like linktree?
I'd love if this resulted in a bit of a restoration of the personal homepage. It's not that major an effort if you aren't a braindead thot for people actually running a business, and any degree of decentralisation would be kinda great. I miss that shit.

If all of this leads to the social media monopoly breaking apart and the internet becoming decentralized, then it would be the greatest outcome of all.

 

[Xanax and Wine]

Just kind of annoying everyone gets dragged into Elons latest shitfit. Sure it's no big hassle to switch out a linktree for an Artstation link or whatever that links to all the other socials but it feels like a bother that didn't have to exist.

 

[The Line]

Cross posting and linking will be fine. Just no creating a twitter account just to advertise your shit and not contribute.

How would cross-posting from a platform such as instagram even work, if links to instagram or mastodon are banned? Is "crossposting" in this context just reuploading?

I guess the answer to my question was yes, I was in fact unable to read the rules.

Ngl I've read the guidelines twice already and am still confused.

 

[Safir]

"Normal" people don't use Twitter. The average person on the street doesn't need fifteen different social media accounts.

If musk doesn't troon out, Twitter is the only social media worth using at all. If the average person on the street is to have some sort of social media, he should be using Twitter and nothing else.

I think it is more targeting accounts that do nothing but use Twitter as Free advertisement. Least that is the interpretation I concluded after reading that Tweet.

This would be my interpretation too, but I've seen a j*urno trying to post a mastodon link and Twitter not letting it go through. Either the "free advertisement" flag is per-account and the j*urno already got pozzed, or no one can link to naughty sites.

 

[Oxyjen]

• Do not plea for sympathy. Don't make posts about how you are leaving the forums. Just leave.

It’s an autistic version of the above. Still dumb imo but Musk is anything but good at listening to people tell him he made a mistake.

I mean, it’s his website. He can do whatever demented dictatorship tactic takes his fancy.
We can but watch and say “see, I told you this was going to happen”.

 

[Barry McKockner]

How would cross-posting from a platform such as instagram even work, if links to instagram or mastodon are banned? Is "crossposting" in this context just reuploading?

Ngl I've read the guidelines twice already and am still confused.

You want an honest answer?

Manchild elon overreacted and will pull back on the link posting. He once again had an overreaction and will claw it back to a more reasonable position. That's why everyone freaking out about this is just idiotic.

 

[Onni Kalsarikännit]

I just wish the lesson everyone, including this bitch takes from this is an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.

"Eye for an eye" just means that you don't retaliate harsher than what happened to you.

If someone takes an eye from you, you should not take more than one eye from the perpetrator. Like you shall not kill the perpetrator. It's about balance and justice, not about revenge. The compensation for damage you suffered shall not be heavier than the damage because in fact that could actually lead to "everyone going blind" when someone who suffered damage takes more compensation than the damage is as it may create a sense of being treated unfairly for ones own doing. That's the idea behind eye for an eye.

Treating all the checkmarks the same as regular non-checkmark users get treaded (ignoring the 8 bucks checkmark system) is fair and is how it should be.
Note: I'm not saying that the current system under Elon is fair. People may discuss this or not but I won't participate in any discussion about this particular point. I will just sit here an laugh at the chaos and tears this whole shitshow creates.