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Twitter will remove accounts made to "promote other social platforms" and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others (@twittersupport)

https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/1604531261791522817
http://www.techmeme.com/221218/p5#a221218p5

Twitter Support on Twitter

“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.”

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Dec 18, 2022 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadSusan BeebeDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme echo chamber for fragile egos
Show threadunderoakDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme This include link.tree and lnk.bio.
Show threadTamar YellinDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme wow
Show threadTamar YellinDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme does this mean they're going to kill the official FB and IG accounts?
Show threadjayDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme As I was saying... https://cuthrell.com/@jay/109525435409239828
Jay (@[email protected])

Future post from 2023: When #Mastodon URLs were first blocked by the `hardcore` team using coarse regular expressions, it only served to accelerate the #Fediverse algal bloom of various polymorphic self-hosted URLs fronted by globally resilient CDNs. https://www.techmeme.com/221215/p45#a221215p45

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Show threadAlpay ErturkmenDec 18, 2022
@Techmeme nail in the coffin for me.