(Replace December 19, 2022, 8:40 AM IST): Twitter has deleted the tweets asserting the coverage that prohibited individuals from posting handles and hyperlinks to different social networks. The corporate has additionally silently eliminated the coverage web page that detailed these guidelines. In the meantime, the Twitter Security account began a ballot asking customers if the corporate ought to type a coverage on accounts used simply to advertise different social networks.

After Twitter made the coverage change, it acquired quite a lot of criticism. In a reply to a consumer, Musk specified that the coverage will likely be adjusted to droop accounts whose solely function is to advertise different social networks. Nevertheless, Twitter hasn’t made any official bulletins associated to this. 

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Whereas individuals across the globe have been watching an exhilarating FIFA World Cup ultimate, Twitter determined to drop a bombshell and banned hyperlinks selling different social networks. The listing at present contains Fb, Instagram, Mastodon, Fact Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Publish. Plus, link-in-bio instruments like Linktree and Lnk.Bio are additionally banned — these providers are generally utilized by each creators and companies. Basically, you’ll be able to’t put up hyperlinks to your different social profiles and even kind out your deal with in a tweet.

The Elon Musk-owned firm “not permits free promotion of sure social media platforms” on Twitter. The corporate mentioned that it’s eradicating all accounts “created solely for the aim of selling different social networks.” It additionally plans to take away hyperlinks to content material from above talked about social platforms.

“We all know that a lot of our customers could also be energetic on different social media platforms; nevertheless, going ahead, Twitter will not permit free promotion of particular social media platforms on Twitter,” the social platform mentioned on its coverage web page.

Twitter will ask you to delete tweets in case you hyperlink out your handles and a number of violations of this coverage will end in a brief account lock. The corporate mentioned when you have hyperlinks to any of those platforms in your bio, it’s going to quickly droop your account and ask you to vary your bio.

What’s fascinating right here is that the Musk-led firm will allow you to put up your deal with in case you pay for the tweet’s promotion.

On Saturday evening, Twitter suspended the account of Washington Publish journalist Taylor Lorenz. Lorenz had lately deleted all of her tweets and solely had three posts on her account: two selling her different social media accounts, and one asking Musk for touch upon a narrative she is engaged on with Drew Harwell, a fellow Publish author. Harwell, together with reporters like the New York Instances’ Ryan Mac and CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, was quickly suspended after posting about how Mastodon’s Twitter was banned for linking to the Elon Jet Mastodon account. He and different journalists have been reinstated after Musk posted a ballot for customers to vote on the journalists’ destiny.

When Lorenz posted her different social media handles and was suspended, this coverage didn’t but exist. On the time of publication, her account seems to have been reinstated.