UPDATE: The tweets by @[email protected] this morning, announcing a new policy banning linking to competing websites, have been deleted.

The policy itself was deleted from Twitter’s website.

Musk’s lackeys spent their entire day in my mentions defending this absurd policy as just and wise only to have Musk abandon it in less than 12 hours

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@juddlegum stop cross posting in the blind
@juddlegum It parallels the whole Trump experience. Do something stupid/impulsive, backlash ensues, supporters twist themselves into pretzels as they climb out on a limb, then watch as their idol saws that branch off. And they keep doing it.
@juddlegum Thinking about how you might violate hypothetical new rules is a violation of those rules.
@angelozanola @juddlegum He's trying to play basilisk mindgames with them. 🤪
@juddlegum Thankfully, I've been a paid subscriber for a few months now. And I plan to be for a while.
@juddlegum I am happily a subscriber
@juddlegum
Keep up the good work Judd! I’m a paid subscriber!
@juddlegum juddle gum's just bot posting over here for us plebes
@juddlegum I think it's vitally important for journalists to avoid Twitter as returning only serves to support Elon and his warped ideals.

@juddlegum And now they'll spend the NEXT 12 hours telling you how just and wise Space Karen is for abandoning the policy.

It's the sole reason for their existence -- their substitute for having a life.

@juddlegum This whole fiasco is a fast-forward rerun of Trump playing president and his circle of disciples trying to stay caught up.
@ampersine @juddlegum sooo nice to get to self-select out of the process this time around.
After backlash, Elon Musk is staking his leadership on a Twitter poll

The company owned by Elon Musk said Sunday that it “will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms on Twitter.”

The Washington Post
@juddlegum Judd, why are you playing Musk's game? IGNORE HIM. And #LeaveTwitter.
@juddlegum Oh the drama and chaos. It triggers my #cptsd Twitter is dead. 🤷‍♀️
@juddlegum I guess someone must have convinced Musk that it wasn't an idea to court even more problems with EU law? Or else that making the software change ASAP to "ban all accounts with links in their profiles" was too risky?
@juddlegum It's so incredibly resonant of the Trump White House 🤣
@juddlegum The #MuskRats are happy to see Twitter become 8chan to own the libs. $44,000,000,000 is a lot of borrowed money just to pull a prank.

@juddlegum Retreat, too, was the right and most noble decision I assume.

I wish I had as much confidence in myself as these people do a billionaire they’ve never met.

@juddlegum its own just reward, really.
@juddlegum I just tried to add the link https://mastodon.social to my profile, and Twitter refused saying this was malware
@juddlegum Comedy gold.
Elon Musk on Twitter

“Comedy is now legal on Twitter”

Twitter
@juddlegum .Down in the bowels of Elon's Minitrue, Winston Smith has got to be getting pretty sick of this shit.
@juddlegum So someone realized this likely broke a ton of laws in Europe and other countries and had no choice but to rescind?
@juddlegum Banning only increased the rate of departures, imagine that. #Fascist at the helm. #Elno #ElonMusk
@juddlegum He’s literally making shit up as he goes along, hoping things stick.
@juddlegum I wonder if his lawyers finally intervened and was like "dude we can't handle another lawsuit"
@juddlegum still can’t post Mastodon links
@JoParkerBear @juddlegum why can't we just walk away and let Twitter decompose?
@juddlegum they must have actually realised how impossible it would be to implement with two a d a half devs on staff 🤣
@juddlegum Of course it is after everyone has been talking about him all day. Mission accomplished for a damaged man desperately seeking affirmative attention he didn't get as a child.
@juddlegum someone told them about EU laws

@juddlegum reminds me of the movie "After Hours" (1985), where the main character gets dumped on the doorstep of his office after an insane night -- and he goes in to the office with the other workers, as if nothing had happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Hours_(film)

After Hours (film) - Wikipedia

@juddlegum it’s just going to be on to another outrage to get clicks. Get out while the getting is good.

@juddlegum

I remember Twitter, vaguely.
I remember AOL chat rooms.
I remember Napster & Limewire.
I remember MySpace
I remember Twitter... vaguely

@countyorange2030 @juddlegum
I remember Usenet
I remember Fidonet
I remember BIX
@juddlegum Space Karen is such a flake 🙄

@juddlegum

Ha!
Someone probs got through his thick skull about the lawsuits he could have faced by switching policy without notice of any kind. Though his company, he/they still have an obligation to the users who signed up before the policy change.

@juddlegum

This seat-of-the-pants CEOing is so hard.....

@juddlegum The shit show shall persevere! 🎉
@juddlegum the people responsible for the sacking have now been sacked
@copito @juddlegum Monty python reference perhaps? Keep it coming! “Just a flesh wound…”