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> There's even a cottage industry of link tree / bio landing pages that consolidate all of your social handles, featured posts, etc into one page. Are those bio sites going to end up banned on Twitter too?

These are already prohibited by the linked policy:

“Prohibited platforms:

* Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

* 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio”




The problem is someone will get clever and use pastbin, then pastebin links are banned, then someone uses a Google Docs link and then those are banned. But at what price? Every overly broad ban just chills speech further and stymies engagement.


Oh wow, totally missed that - bonkers.


Yeah the real killer was in the detailed policy announcement. Killing 3rd party aggregator will negatively impact content creators who never planned to leave or undermine Twitter in the first place.




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