Wil BaneDec 18, 2022
Pwnallthethings

Twitter formalizes blocking of accounts and tweets that encourage readers to follow you on other social media sites, including Mastodon.

Specific examples of violating tweets given in the policy:

> “follow me @username on Instagram”

> “[email protected]”

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

Promotion of Alternative Social Platforms Policy | Twitter Help

Dec 18, 2022 at 5:53pmWeb
Show threadCassandrichDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username Exactly like Leenode.
Show threadJake WinterDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings Twitter, the island
Show threadWTLDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings I guess Twitter has realized that they're leaking users and are spectacularly concerned about it.
Show threadBJC860Dec 18, 2022

@WTL @Pwnallthethings

Yes.

Show threadEric PolDec 18, 2022
@WTL @Pwnallthethings but I think this will lead to even more user leak…
Show threadRyan CavanaughDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username holy shit they have lost the plot
Show threadHelenDec 18, 2022
@SeaRyanC @Pwnallthethings @username it’s actually hilarious
Show threadPwnallthethingsDec 18, 2022
@SeaRyanC Hahaha yes, but we already knew that.
Show threadKatMDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username crazy. Twitter is trying to fully de-federate lol.
Show threadKynycDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username this is bad enough to read like parody.
Show threadSophie SchmiegDec 18, 2022
@kynyc @Pwnallthethings @username I somewhat assume that their remaining tech writer either quit on the spot or died because of too much laughter
Show threadMichael at LawDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings l, and I cannot add this strongly enough, mao
Show threadAGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸Dec 18, 2022
@michaelatlaw @Pwnallthethings RIP your landlord I guess.
Show threadPhilip MartinDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username

I guess I should go see if my account has been locked, since I changed my ‘name’ on The Fowl Place to my Mastodon handle? 😂

Show threadTim is wearing a mask 🌈Dec 18, 2022
@PhilipMartin @Pwnallthethings @username
I did that too a few weeks ago. No blow back yet.
Show threadPhilip MartinDec 18, 2022

@spodlife @Pwnallthethings @username

Well, they just implemented the policy, so give it a little time.

Anyway, I keep posting things that are innocuous that are related to Mastodons (links to Wikipedia, articles about Mastodon DNA on Nature.com, etc) and they keep putting CWs on them. I figure The Algorithm will get tired of that sooner or later. 😆

Show threadThe Spoonless KitchenJan 6, 2023

@PhilipMartin @Pwnallthethings @username They haven't locked mine yet, despite having "joinmastodon" and my link in my profile; I've also been actively posting receipts to "TwitterCOVIDFiles" proving the opposite of what Elno is saying it says.

But the algorithm doesn't know what to do with that, so the view numbers are all over the place. It's wild!

Twitter had my account suspended from January 28-November 14, 2022, until I sent Alex Heath at The Verge (on Nov. 13) all my receipts of the two "ivermectin" disinformation campaigns and how Twitter actively "rate limit exceeded" me from reporting the campaigns as they ran.

Twitter Support's email said my account was the victim of "automated" processes that "automatically" marked my account as spam - when those "automatic" processes had to be kicked off by multiple false reports (which they were).

So Twitter has a vested interest in not killing my account again. I'm trying to do what I can with it, if it will help the website's demise.

Show threadDarwin WoodkaDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings so they can ban a journalist now just for linking to an article on another social media platform?
Show threadgarlandDec 18, 2022
@username @Pwnallthethings wow, the speech is getting more free all the time.
Show threadcodesmellDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings This is the web, you know - don't you dare to use links to other websites.

So happy i left, before they kicked me out.

Show threadSacha PrinsDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings

Welp, my twitter username is my mastodon handle so that won’t take long. What a petty sh*tshow…

Show threadJacob TorreyDec 18, 2022
Good thing I'm on #Pleroma
Show threadJonathan NicholsonDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @davidbruce
Show threadNathan KalmoeDec 18, 2022
@username @Pwnallthethings losers doing loser things over there at Twitter hq
Show threadTed SpenceDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username wonder if my account was banned. Oh well it’s not like I’m going to log back in to check
Show threadThe Febrile MuseDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings
So Gab, TS and other right-wing sites blocked too, right?
@username
Show threadBlake LeonardDec 18, 2022
@CMDoran
It specifically named Truth Social so yes
@Pwnallthethings @username
Show threadThe Febrile MuseDec 18, 2022
@blake @Pwnallthethings @username cherry-picking for sure.
Show threadMarcelinaDec 18, 2022
@CMDoran @Pwnallthethings @username he banned truth and parler yes, but I think he did so because Trump pissed him off by not coming back to twitter. Even if that’s not the case he’s doing it because he doesn’t want people to flee to Mastodon or other platforms.
Show threadJohn HaydenDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username

The next step for the authoritarian is to attempt to prevent freedom of movement, for instance, by installing a barrier

Like that one time in Berlin, yeah, that went great

Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username

Musk: Twitter is the main driver of engagement and referrals on the internet

Also Musk: so we gonna suspend journalists and ban external referrals

Show threadflere-imsaho 🇺🇦Dec 18, 2022
@hu_logic @Pwnallthethings @username the advertisers must be really happy.
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 18, 2022
@mawhrin @Pwnallthethings @username I'm pretty sure click-through rates are already in the gutter. So, yeah, this is likely one of the final nails in the ad revenue coffin...
Show threadDanielRigalDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username Enron Husk is this close to declaring war on the whole internet. That's not a winning strategy for an internet based company.
Show threadCave CattumDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username
Now they'll have to block auto-redirects, i.e. the entire web 🤣🥳🤡
Show threadInterpipes 💙Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings I wonder if this is retrospective and I can expect to have tweets and my profile amended even though they were set before musk had this latest anti-freedom thought
Show threadInterpipes 💙Dec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings he's trying really hard to speedrun the 90s pop-culture-fan-forum admin villain arc isn't he

NO POSTING LINKS TO ANY OTHER SPICE GIRLS FORUMS THIS IS THE BEST ONE

Show threadTed SpenceDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username “ban first, come up with a plausible sounding policy second”
Show threadBob ConwayDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username So uh... when are they banning the official Facebook and Instagram accounts on Twitter? 🤔

(Or is this just an obvious attempt to ban Mastodon without looking like they're banning Mastodon?)

Show threadKrupoDec 19, 2022
@bobcgames @Pwnallthethings @username yet another sign the policy was crafted on a whim and is equally likely to bounce erratically in a day or two
Show threadKrupoDec 19, 2022
@bobcgames @Pwnallthethings pleasantly unsurprised to see that prediction come true?
Show threadrrgDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings

>Prohibited platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr

>and Nostr

Now this just made me LOL

Show threadTealcisgod04♾️Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username WTAF?!?
Show threadLord KilgallenDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings What makes it even worse is the ban of link aggregators. Artists and content creators are really not going to look forward to potentially migrate (again).
Show threadlorddimwit is now @[email protected]Dec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username

Very liberty. Such free. Wow.

Show threadNewJunkCityDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username Someone needs to tell him what happened to "Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company" when they tried to force filmmakers to "only use their products".

Free market capitalism is a mess, but sometimes it does self-correct.... all im gonna say.

Show threadMike ThompsonDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings @username I do wonder whether Musk knows what the word haemorrhage means, let alone how to spell it.

Idiot.

Show threadDan Kletter 🥑Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username What could explain why I’ve had my Mastodon URL in my profile for a month and haven’t been blocked or banned yet?
Show threadScott Small 🇨🇦Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings The amusing thing about this new policy is that they specifically call out Mastodon by name, but not the Fediverse in general. So links to accounts on Pleroma, Misskey, Pixelfed are OK?
Show threadDubi is here Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username well, that means the last purpose my twitter account served is no longer viable. Time to delete
Show threadRodolfo SaccaniDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username
Show threaddeilann v -0.2.1.  Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings what i don't see in this policy is just repeatedly tweeting "toot"
Show threadKrupoDec 19, 2022
@deilann @Pwnallthethings all the loopholes will be found in due course
Show threaddeilann v -0.2.1.  Dec 19, 2022
@krupo @Pwnallthethings to be fair, the policy doesn't matter it's whether or not you can keep it quiet enough to not be noticed. he didn't care it wasn't the rules before - the rules don't matter. thinking they do is naive. but it's still fun to think of loop holes.
Show threadSensibleOtterDec 18, 2022

@Pwnallthethings

Things obviously getting seriously tense over there.

Advertising must be hurting too, as the “sponsored” ads appearing on my timeline were from @horse_lover1 🤷 (no joking)

Show threadFernando FerrãoDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings What are you afraid of #ElonMusk ? 🤡
Show threadMikester (he/him)Dec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings What a shit show - I had updated my profile to point to mastodon so assuming i'm suspended at this point, too bored with it to even bother looking. #spacekaren byieeee
Show threadDr. Dan KillamDec 18, 2022
@Pwnallthethings @username they could find themselves in legal trouble over this. not that he has ever worried about the law