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If it was just a ban strictly on competitors then it would just be pathetic, but it's more than that.

This is a ban on advertising an online presence outside of Twitter, which makes the platform way less attractive to anyone who uses it as a secondary platform, as a way to communicate with followers, while mostly monetizing another platform (Instagram or FB for example). Now that they've done this, there's no guarantee they won't expand this policy in the future. If Twitter releases a short form video platform, tiktok will be banned. Maybe youtube will be banned too. Twitter has just become untrustworthy to creators.

That's all not to mention the casual users, who use multiple platforms and want to connect their friends. I've linked my Instagram to Twitter friends before, and now I'm not allowed to do it anymore.

This is a bad business decision, no two ways around it.




> This is a ban on advertising an online presence outside of Twitter, which makes the platform way less attractive to anyone who uses it as a secondary platform

Reading the page it was a ban on empty accounts, ie a block on accounts that are "Follow me as @mike on instagram" or whatever.

Nevermind though, the policy is now reversed and Elon has apologised.




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