It seems that Elon Musk He hasn’t given one since he took possession of Twitter, at the end of last October. In recent days, the billionaire has been more indecisive than ever about the direction of the platform. Perhaps that is why almost 60% of users want the billionaire to resign as CEO, according to a survey carried out by himself.
Although Musk promised that Twitter would be a haven for free speech, his actions prove otherwise. Last week he suspended all accounts of the boy who was tracking his private plane and announced legal action against him, despite denying that he would. Almost at the same time, he deleted the official account of Mastodonthe rival platform where those fleeing Twitter are moving to.
It also suspended the accounts of various media journalists such as CNN, The Washington Post or The New York Times. The argument was that, supposedly, they violated his policy against ‘doxxing’, which prohibits the sharing of third-party private information. The reporters’ accounts have already been reactivated, as confirmed the businessman, but criticism will follow him for a long time.
Elon Musk made a radical decision against rival platforms
Finally, the 51-year-old tycoon announced this Sunday, December 18, that it was prohibited to promote other networks from Twitter.
“We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we are no longer going to allow the free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” they explained from the Twitter account. Twitter Support in a thread that has already been deleted.
“We will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that includes links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, instagram, Mastodon, TruthSocial, tribal, Nostr Y post“, they detailed in the tweets.
The message included a link to their updated usage policy, where they explained that any account or comment with links or usernames to another social network would be removed. In addition, they would prohibit the use of popular link aggregators such as link tree.
If it is the first violation or an isolated incident, they will only delete the posts. In the event that the bio of the profile includes a link to another social network, the user will be sent a request to remove it. Failure to do so will result in the account being temporarily suspended. If he reoffends, the penalty would be permanent, the company said.
They detailed that will continue to accept paid promotions by any social network and will still allow the cross postingthat is, “the cross-posting of content from any social media platform”.
Mentions “to social media platforms not listed above” fall outside the ban. It should be noted that this list does not include Youtubeproperty of Googlenor to TikTokfrom the Chinese company bytedancewhich were released from the veto.
And then he reconsidered…
The new norm caused a wave of negative reactions among the Twitter community and specialists. even the very former CEO and creator of Twitter, jack dorseysaid that “it does not make sense”, taking into account that he has just invested in Nostr, one of the platforms vetoed by Elon Musk.
Virtually all social networks have profiles on other ‘rival’ platforms, especially to give official information when, for example, they suffer a crash or system failure. For now, the Facebook or Instagram profiles are still active and you can still post links to those networks, collect The Spanish.
However, one of the strongest arguments is The importance of social networks for businesses and entrepreneurs.
“Telling people they can’t post a link to their Instagram is too much. The same goes for Linktree. I use mine to link to my website, my coffee business, etc. Not to compete with Twitter,” wrote news and content organization The Quartering. in a tweet. To which the South African replied: “Ok, that sounds reasonable.”
The pressure was so much that they rolled back the new policy in less than 24 hours, they removed the Twitter Support statements and Elon Musk apologized. In fact, Twitter page where they explained the changes no longer exists either, reports xataka.
“In the future, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. It will not happen again,” said the businessman.
Elon Musk is a fan of polls and playing with Twitter policies
Musk commented that they will make changes and they will only suspend accounts whose main purpose is to promote other social networks, as they would violate the ‘no spam’ rule.
From Twitter Safety they published a survey asking if they agreed to block these accounts, leaving the responsibility in the hands of the opinion of a handful of users. The result? Of the almost 327,000 people who voted, 87% said “no.”
We will remain pending the next movements of Elon Musk on Twitter, as everything indicates that things will not improve soon.
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