Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rivals
, including what the company described Sunday as “prohibited platforms” Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.
Twitter is also banning promotions of third-party social media link aggregators such as Linktree, which some people use to show where they can be found on different websites. The decision to ban rival social media site links comes after Elon Musk banned an account that tracked his private jet. who cover the social media platform and Musk, among them reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications. Many of those accounts were restored following an online poll by Musk.
The specific topic was not disclosed in the tweet, although it was in response to Musk tweeting about an alleged incident earlier in the week involving a “violent stalker” in Southern California and Musk’s complaints about journalists allegedly revealing his family’s location by referencing the jet-tracker account.
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