Brewster Kahle

Twitter seems to have removed the new policy to ban accounts linking to competitors.

here is their page in the internet archive's wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221218183504/https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817

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 19, 2022 at 3:44amWeb
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@brewsterkahle

I admire that they have the courage of their convictions...

Show threadshandrew at webDec 19, 2022
@brewsterkahle Account ban removed, but linking is still blocked. Possibly planned all along.
Show threadBrewster KahleDec 19, 2022

@shandrew hum.

My twitter profile has a link to mastodon, and is still visible to me: https://twitter.com/brewster_kahle

I am a small fish, so maybe this only applies to others.

Brewster Kahle (@brewster_kahle) / Twitter

Digital Librarian @internetarchive https://t.co/7ojy915Rea https://t.co/bAusgBFTtW https://t.co/c9qTQpvRsA @openlibrary @great78project mastodon: @[email protected]://t.co/7ojy915Rea

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Show threadshandrew at webDec 19, 2022

@brewsterkahle Looks like mastodon.archive.org escaped whatever matching they are using to block the URLs. Most mastodon links get the "unsafe link" warning if you try to click on them.

If you try to add one of these urls to your profile, you get "Account update failed: Url is considered malware"

Show threadKarsten™️Dec 19, 2022

@brewsterkahle

I hope you guys are keeping track of all the dumb things he tweets and then deletes. It will be important to have a record of all this.

Show threadBrewster KahleDec 19, 2022

@karstenbondy

always ways to be better, but we are pretty good at it.

Show threadKarsten™️Dec 19, 2022
@brewsterkahle you guys are the best there is. I have nothing but the highest admiration for what you do. You're my Amazon Smile donation.