Casey NewtonThis is ludicrous. Are they going to manually review every account now looking for social media links?? http://www.techmeme.com/221218/p5#a221218p5
Freakinbox@caseynewton Tell me they are hemorrhaging users
Without directly telling me. :)
Richard@caseynewton this is insane! More lawsuits coming soon?
Darren@caseynewton Holy shit is that real?
@caseynewton free speech unless of course you are promoting the competition? What the hell!
South13@caseynewton
They get this makes them look weak right?
They get this makes them look weak right?
Spencer@caseynewton Welcome to hell /nilay.
John Payne 
@caseynewton wow. So Gab and Parler are ok? ActivityPub social networks not called mastodon are too... along with hive and micro.blog. Interesting choices there. I'm sure they're very well thought out.
Shubham Arora@caseynewton I have seen people use linktree and other services to showcase their links on #birdsite . So I guess that will still work for now. How long you cannot link to your own website as that might contain links to other services.
@caseynewton 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio
Just read the policy link aggregators are banned as well.
Tim Corbeel
trenchworms@arshubham @caseynewton the rules do also specify that link aggregation sites like link tree are banned too
ThoughtsFromTheGrowlery
Eric Metelka@caseynewton seems like this will run straight into regulatory problems
Ben Ward@caseynewton What absolute chaos. Twitter banning the @facebook account then?
Ricard Torres 📷
Wow
Tim N7KOM@caseynewton guess I should check in on my Twitter. My last post (that I then pinned) was where everyone could find me 😂
Sporiff 📧@caseynewton awww. Is the capitalist afraid of competition?
@caseynewton I mean, when Congressional regulation gets discussed, data portability is a big topic. This new policy has been implemented to try to keep people from jumping ship. People wanting to jump ship is the symptom, Musk is the disease.
@caseynewton Musk and fascists and Nazis are the disease.
Florian Wagner-von Papp@caseynewton Say what you will — I think it is very honourable of Elon to lay out the facts for an antitrust investigation so openly. #antitrust #antitrustlaw
Maki Shioya@caseynewton So are the platforms left out of the ban like medium, substack and whatever left of hive social happy that they're not banned or upset they're not worth banning according to twitter? 😂
Andrew Clement@ShioyaMaki @caseynewton I'm pretty sure hive social lost alot when they had to shut down for a couple days to fix a major security flaws
Bruce Mirken@caseynewton Clearly the action of a secure and confident company. 🤣🤡🤣🤡
llywrch
Douglas E. Welch@caseynewton They are making it very clear that they are running scared.
I am not sure that is the message they want to send, but it is clearly what they are saying.
I am not sure that is the message they want to send, but it is clearly what they are saying.
Abe Hassan@caseynewton onlyfans is approved??
Sloan Studio@caseynewton As I predicted, narcissists tend towards the same result, Twitter is the new Truth Social. You can't say anything bad about the owner, you can't post anything the owner doesn't like, you can't link to anything that might undermine their power. Everyone should leave Twitter as soon as feasible.
Kevin Maguire@caseynewton outrageous. And timed whilst Musk was at the game, grasping for plausible deniability.
joshhunt@caseynewton so embarassing.
Anthony Baker@caseynewton Studies have shown that the volume of posts on Twitter are generated by a small percentage of users. Moving key folks off of the platform will kill it. That said, folks I know who make $$$ of Twitter (via online classes, etc.) aren’t leaving yet
Dinis Correia@caseynewton I wonder what will happen to those of us that already have a link to Mastodon on our bios.
RoyalHoeliness@caseynewton notice gab and parler are missing from the list.
Andrew Canion 
@caseynewton @peter congratulations Flickr and Tumblr.
C. E. M. Henderson@caseynewton This completely disagrees with their stated policy, which is here: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
Aaron Sheah@caseynewton I love freedom of speech!
@caseynewton interesting that YouTube isn’t included. Could just be oversight, but perhaps a bone to not screw over creators who are dependent on driving their audience to monetize on YouTube
Niall O’Sullivan@caseynewton I can imagine the makers of Hive reading this and thinking’ “What about us, surely we’re worth banning too?”
Moha@caseynewton
Unbelievable, free speech they said!
Unbelievable, free speech they said!
mustafa_eu@caseynewton typically the kind of thing you do when you've got the situation under control.
Nathan Pitman
JR 🏳️🌈@caseynewton Who knew free speech had so many exceptions.😂
Stammy
Ethan Kaplan
Jae@caseynewton yikes, wonder if their seeing something in their metrics that has them spooked.
Jim Rutt@caseynewton A quite foul move by Musk. Voice and exit are both necessary signaling means for when organizations get off track.
I suppose it sort of makes sense in a short-termist game-theory way, but it certainly calls into question Musk's claim of a good faith desire to "help humanity".
Valerie Curtis@caseynewton How controlling!
Jamtribb Verified@caseynewton Can you smell the freedom? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Noah Mittman 
@caseynewton so it's now broken as a PR system, arguably the only thing it was ever actually really good at
@caseynewton - Twitter-is dying faster than anybody imagined.
I bet the lenders are very worried
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#twitter #twittermigration #twitter
I bet the lenders are very worried
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#twitter #twittermigration #twitter
michael mattison@caseynewton
He's such a man baby.
He's such a man baby.
Stuart Frisby@caseynewton what an absolute fucking wet wipe that guy is.
Ted Spence@caseynewton they will keep updating the policy until it matches their banning behavior
Quinn Nelson@caseynewton Good thing I left yesterday and linked here before it was banned!
Ernesto@snazzyq @caseynewton you triggered this ban, Quinn! 😂
ryanhuber@snazzyq @caseynewton Not that it is important or matters much, but I almost certainly waited too long to export my twitter data. :)
Chris Pirillo@snazzyq @caseynewton ...there was never a better time to be an early adopter. Can't help but want to help others on board.
Dom 🍫@caseynewton Question. If they are now manually removing perfectly legal content, does that mean they are making editorial decisions? Does that potentially make them liable for illegal content posted there?