On Sunday, throughout the World Cup, Twitter formally banned its customers from linking to their profiles on different social media websites like Mastodon, Fb and Instagram. Mentions of different platform handles are additionally now banned.
The coverage means Twitter customers flocking to Mastodon at the moment are longer allowed to inform their followers to go there as a substitute, for example. Penalties for breaking the principles embrace offending tweets being deleted to whole account suspensions.
One of many methods Mastodon has grown is the usage of companies that assist migrate Twitter followers by scanning bios for Mastodon handles. Assuming Twitter follows by way of with enforcement of its newly introduced coverage, these companies will now be unable to perform as individuals is not going to be allowed to incorporate their Mastodon names of their Twitter bios.
Curiously, Twitter is just focusing on a handful of platforms with its new coverage — not all social media websites. The corporate specifies the prohibited platforms are ‘Fb, Instagram, Mastodon, Reality Social, Tribel, Put up and Nostr’.
It is usually banning hyperlinks to social media profile aggregators like linktr.ee. These are companies that supply a unified web page of many social media accounts. Attempting to obfuscate the hyperlink (resembling changing the . within the URL with ‘dot’) can even be thought of as violations.
Tweets referencing these platforms are additionally now banned, even when they don’t comprise an precise hyperlink. As an illustration, posting ‘observe me @bzamayo on Mastodon’ on Twitter is now not allowed.
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