Erin ConroySo, it seems like not everyone has noticed that #Bluesky is the only social media competitor that Musk never banned & always allowed to advertise itself to Twitter users.
Isn't that interesting.
pacific_murmurs@chargrille can you explain what you mean by saying that it was "never banned" and "still allowed to advertise itself"? Like, are we talking about official, paid adverts, or is it other stuff, like hiding tweets containing links to other platforms or mentions of other platforms?
All of that. Musk ordered a number of bans to try to stop people going to competitors: disabled links, blocked tweets, labeled links to Mastodon as "potentially harmful" etc.
@TwitterSupport on Dec 18, 2022 "...we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post."
Paid ads too:
https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1604538254795198465
Notice the glaring absence of the competitor that's most directly a Twitter clone: Bluesky.
This suggests there are legal agreements/informal collusion behind the scenes. Which would not be at all surprising, since they're friends, & Bluesky was created by Jack as Twitter CEO, to serve Twitter, & funded directly by Twitter. There's zero info re how exactly BS ownership was transferred from shareholders to Twitter's CEO, as Jack was pushed out & just before he plotted w/Musk to buy