Twitter will ban its users from posting links to competing social networks

Twitter users will no longer be able to post links to several competing social networks, billionaire Elon Musk’s platform announced in a statement on Sunday, which is raising concerns after the suspension of journalist accounts.

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“Twitter no longer allows free promotion of certain social networks on Twitter,” the statement said, specifying that Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr are concerned, as well as “links to network aggregators social like linktr.ee, lnk.bio”.

Users who violate this policy risk temporary account suspension, the statement said.

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