Not political but funny...this guy just a fuckup wanting to be in public eye....could cost him a bunch....already being laughed at and users looking elsewhere
Twitter announces, then quickly retracts ban on promoting other social media
Hours after Twitter banned users from promoting accounts on other major social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Truth Social, the controversial prohibition vanished from its policy page.
The
new, restrictive policy came after many users, eyeing the exit doors, began posting links to their accounts on other platforms following Elon Musk's takeover as CEO of Twitter and its subsequent
reinstatement of far-right accounts,
suspension of journalists and
mass layoffs.
We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms," Twitter support
tweeted Sunday. "However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter."
The platform and Musk were then subject of resounding criticism for a move that seemed to defy the spirit of an internet built on free market-style cross-linking.
A few hours after the policy's announcement, Musk appeared to contradict it in a tweet that said, “Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.”
By evening, the platform's page containing the new policy language had vanished under the "page not found" 404 heading, indicating deleted or moved content. There was no word on whether the policy had been formally rescinded. References to the prohibition on outside social media also disappeared from Twitter Support's feed Sunday night without explanation.
The policy was criticized as ironic for a CEO who vowed to be a "free speech absolutist." Some noted that Tesla, the electric vehicle company run by Musk, once encouraged fans to visit its Facebook page. (He famously deleted it in 2018).
Earlier Sunday, Musk also apologized for the abrupt policy change that followed weeks of tumult since his Oct. 27 takeover. Since then, Twitter has laid off or seen the exodus of thousands of employees, more than half its workforce, botched introduction of paid verification for users and suspended a half-dozen journalists. They were reinstated late Friday.