Charles GabaDec 18, 2022
🚨 PREDICTION: Within the next few hours, Twitter users who have their Mastodon link in their display name, bio, website link or pinned tweet (which is what tools like Debirdify and Movetodon use, I believe) will suddenly discover that the link has been mysteriously removed.
Show threadCharles GabaDec 18, 2022

🚨 BOOM.

At 9:00am,
@debirdify stated that 1,899 of my followers had Mastodon/CS accounts in their bios/names/etc.

As of 2:00pm, just an hour or so after Musk's newest decree banning Mastodon links, only 1,808 have them...even though only 8 more accounts have been deactivated.

Show threadCharles GabaDec 18, 2022

It's likely that some users were intimidated by the new link ban into going into their profiles & deleting the links themselves...which itself would be disturbing enough.

But it's also possible that Musk ordered those profiles/names/pinned tweets to be edited internally.

Show threadJohn Hobbs
@charlesgaba I’m keeping my mastodon link up ( my username ) will advise
Dec 18, 2022 at 7:32pmWeb