Twitter will now not enable customers to advertise their presence on sure social platforms, together with Fb, Instagram, Mastodon, Fact Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Put up. In a post outlining these changes, Twitter says it would take motion towards accounts that violate this coverage “at each the Tweet degree and the account degree.”
This implies customers can now not embrace a hyperlink to their profiles on different social networks of their Twitter bio, nor can they hyperlink to their posts on banned platforms except it’s a cross-post. Twitter additionally says it might droop accounts “used for the principle objective of selling content material on one other social platform” and can now not enable customers to hyperlink to third-party hyperlink aggregators, like Linktree or Lnk.bio. Twitter is okay with the paid promotion of those banned platforms, nevertheless.
“We acknowledge that sure social media platforms present different experiences to Twitter, and permit customers to submit content material to Twitter from these platforms,” Twitter notes. “Usually, any kind of cross-posting to our platform will not be in violation of this coverage, even from the prohibited websites listed above.”
Twitter says it would take away any tweets that comprise violations of the coverage, and will briefly droop customers with hyperlinks to banned social platforms of their profiles. It would additionally take motion towards customers who attempt to get round this coverage by cloaking URLs to different platforms or “spelling out “dot” for social media platforms that use ‘.’ within the names to keep away from URL creation, or sharing screenshots of your deal with on a prohibited social media platform.”