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From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotio
by threatofrain 4y ago
From official Twitter support:
> We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.
> Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
And from Elon Musk:
> Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.
- louloulou 4y agolol, nostr? There are like 20 people on that, it's still just an experiment.
- retrocryptid 4y ago
- throwaway4aday 4y agoThis is all rather entertaining to watch from the sidelines. Both "sides" in this power struggle are making hilarious cock-ups and are playing hard to their bases, to the point of absurdity. The sad thing is watching people say things like this as if it's some kind of "checkmate, alt-right!" but anyone with even an eighth of their attention resting outside of a filter bubble can see that A) nobody on the other side gives a shit and B) the side accusing Musk of not adhering to his promise has already squandered so much cache over the past 7 years that this kind of reneging, which is by all measures incredibly tame and expected given both Twitter's business interests and Musks personality, is in no way damning let alone surprising. Neither side has moral authority, you're both just street fighting and are too covered in mud and manure to figure out that you're punching in the wrong directions.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- sph 4y agoWhich two sides? I'm only seeing Elon Musk vs the world
- slaw 4y agoElon Musk has or a had large group of followers.
- ProjectArcturis 4y agoYes, and what's the other side?
- throwaway4aday 4y agoHow's the water today?
- neodymiumphish 4y agoExactly. It's so odd to act like this is a good example of a "free speech violation". The speech being prohibited serves no purpose beyond harming Twitter's popularity. If you're still allowed to convey any actual opinion (with clear exceptions, such as desire for harm to be done, illegal speech, etc), than this is a nothingburger to the people willing to support Musk. Similarly, it's so minor in comparison to previous examples of Twitter's past suspensions for real free speech violations that nobody on the right is going to come to the suspension "victim's" defense.
- sapporo_197 4y ago
- hinkley 4y agoGiven his current behavior, it seems more likely he did consult lawyers, didn't like what they told him, and elected instead to Do It Live.
- slg 4y agoNotice that TikTok isn't on the list. Seems like Musk crafted the rules in a way to ensure that one of his favorite Twitter accounts is safe from this rule about posting links to other social media.
- andirk 4y agoI sure hope not. I'm an adult. I don't watch TikTok until it lands on Instagram or Twitter.
- s5300 4y ago
- foxtrotucku 4y ago
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- naasking 4y agoI don't think you understand the definition of incitement.
- s5300 4y agoOkay. Would you perhaps suggest “instigated” as a better descriptor? Quite literally, Bostons childrens fucking hospital has been receiving direct bomb threats, death threats against doctors, & other shit directly because of LibsofTikToks extreme stretching of cherry-picked “truths” If you are trying to say you know better about this than the state government of Massachusetts, & even the feds - please do let me know why you think this way, whether or not you think your viewpoint is best for a civil society, & whatever other reasons you believe I’m not able to accurately apply the meanings of “incite” or “instigate” This is a very strange hill to have an opinion on other than “this is very bad and dangerous” when a childrens hospital affiliated with one of academias (Harvard/Cambridge universities) premier teaching hospitals (Mass General as a whole - which the childrens hospital is affiliated with.) is receiving bomb threats & direct threats of lethal harm to several employed doctors, as well as their support staff. I’ve come to the pretty reasonable conclusion that there’s no good faith discussion to be had when one side is “anything that leads to threats of domestic terrosism against a childrens hospital is a bad thing” & the other is “buh, buuh - have u considered that death threats against childrens hospitals might actually be the way of righteousness? This sociopath has thoughts they think you’ve yet to consider!”
- ckastner 4y ago> However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. So much for free speech.
- troupe 4y agoMusk seems to be indicating that banning it was a mistake: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737
- dnm 4y agoLooks like it’s back up, but they dumped his followers.
- richbell 4y agoThey'll slowly rehydrate and return to what they were pre-suspension. The same thing happened with Donald Trump's account after it was unsuspended.
- wpietri 4y agoThis is correct. Right now I see it back to 1,027,886 followers. The Wayback Machine shows him at 1.5 million yesterday.
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- actionfromafar 4y ago"I am sorry, I didn't know so many of you liked Paul Graham. I can reinstate him. Please like me."
- bb88 4y agoIt's not so much whether or not someone you like Paul Graham or not. I don't follow him. I don't know him. I'm sure he's a fine person. But if you really, truly believe in free speech and having a platform for sharing interesting ideas, then you want someone like Mr. Graham on the platform.
- Herbstluft 4y agoClown shoes behaviour.
- thepasswordis 4y agoLOTT doesn’t usually link to TT. They reupload the videos to twitter.
- RavingGoat 4y agoPeople should be filling out takedown notices.