#Socialites, get into this: Twitter announced this Sunday that it will no longer allow users to promote their other social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, and Truth Social.
For years many users have included their other handles in their bios or tweets. However, a new policy implemented by Twitter CEO Elon Musk is changing all of that.
“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,” Twitter Support tweeted Sunday. 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,” the post continued.
To add to that, Twitter will also ban third-party link aggregators, like linktr.ee and lnk.bio. Now I don’t know who pissed off Mr. Elon, but he’s even removing users who try to get around the rules by spelling out “dot” and sharing screenshots of their handles on prohibited platforms.
Of course, after getting a bunch of backlash for the new rule change, Musk shared another tweet… seemingly contradicting his new policy:
He said, “casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.”
More On Twitter Changes
Back in November, Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) boss Elon Musk became chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he bought for $44 billion.
Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, quickly fired Twitter’s previous chief Parag Agrawal and other top company officials after he took over.
Since then, he made revisions to the platform’s user verification process, which has been free until now. However, the $8 charge for a blue check cause major problems for users and publications.
As part of the re-launch of the verification system, Twitter will now offer gold checks for companies, gray checks for government entities and other organizations, and blue checks for individuals, whether they are a celebrities or not. The gold business verification check mark started to appear on Monday for big company accounts, such as The New York Times and Taco Bell. Later on Monday, the option to subscribe to Twitter Blue returned to the platform.