{"id":1779717,"date":"2022-12-19T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779717"},"modified":"2022-12-19T06:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:48:34","slug":"twitter-to-stop-allowing-free-promotion-of-other-social-networks-on-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-to-stop-allowing-free-promotion-of-other-social-networks-on-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to Stop Allowing &#8220;Free Promotion&#8221; of Other Social Networks on Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-to-stop-allowing-free-promotion-of-other-social-networks-on-platform%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<div class=\"TopBanner-container\" data-top-banner-placeholder=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-full PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-keyPoints\" id=\"RegularArticle-KeyPoints-4\" data-test=\"keyPoints-1\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-keyPoints-4-1\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"RenderKeyPoints-list\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter said it will no longer allow users to promote other social media accounts on its platform, according to a thread of tweets Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Many users have been promoting their other social media accounts on Twitter following Elon Musk&#8217;s $44 billion takeover of the company in October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-articleBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-107155662\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption\">Elon Musk Twitter account displayed on a phone screen and Twitter logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 22, 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCredit\">Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Twitter said it will no longer allow users to promote other social media accounts on its platform, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/1604531261791522817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread of tweets the company shared Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms,&#8221; the company said. &#8220;However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many users have been sharing their other social media accounts on Twitter following Elon Musk&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/10\/27\/elon-musk-now-in-charge-of-twitter-ceo-and-cfo-have-left-sources-say.html\">$44 billion takeover<\/a> of the company in October. Twitter said the company will still allow cross-posting from different platforms, but tweeting content like &#8220;follow me @username on Instagram,&#8221; or &#8220;username@mastodon.social&#8221; is now a policy violation.<\/p>\n<p>Posting third-party link aggregators like linktr.ee and lnk.bio is also banned under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>If users violate this new policy, they may be required to delete their offending tweets. Accounts may also be temporarily locked or suspended, Twitter said. The company will remove accounts that try to get around the rules by posting screenshots of their other accounts or spelling out words like &#8220;dot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The policy is unusual, as few, if any, other social media companies have rules about sharing links to other accounts. Twitter&#8217;s co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey said the company&#8217;s new policy &#8220;doesn&#8217;t make sense&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1604554444544393216?s=20&#038;t=pkYVqM8QL_A1-v9rYa8clg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Twitter announced the new promotion policy, Paul Graham,\u00a0an influential venture capitalist, tweeted a link to his website announcing that he would be posting on Mastodon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the last straw,&#8221; he wrote. Twitter suspended his account hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Graham, usually a major proponent of Musk, founded the accelerator and venture firm Y Combinator. Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1604616863673208832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a pair of tweets Sunday<\/a> evening that Graham&#8217;s account would be restored, and it was quickly reactivated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;My apologies. Won&#8217;t happen again.&#8221; Musk was tweeting from Doha, where he had attended the World Cup final alongside Jared Kushner, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter carried out a number of controversial suspensions earlier in the week as a result of recent changes to its policy on &#8220;doxxing,&#8221; which <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/personal-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the company defines<\/a> as the &#8220;sharing someone&#8217;s private information online without their permission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The updated policy prohibits users from sharing live location information, home addresses, contact information or physical location information. The changes resulted in a number of account suspensions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/16\/twitter-suspends-journalists-who-have-been-covering-elon-musk-and-the-company.html?&#038;qsearchterm=twitter\">many journalists who have been covering Musk<\/a> and his companies. Musk accused the suspended journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/social-media\/musk-reinstates-suspended-journalists-twitter-poll-rcna62227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he called<\/a> &#8220;basically assassination coordinates.&#8221; CNBC could not verify this allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/14\/twitter-suspends-elonjet-account-that-tracks-elon-musks-private-jet-.html?&#038;qsearchterm=twitter\">private jet flight-tracking accounts<\/a> created by 20-year-old Jack Sweeney, many of which tracked Musk&#8217;s travel movements, were also suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Howard, director of the Digital Democracy Project, told CNBC that institutions will &#8220;be forced off the sidelines&#8221; if Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;extraordinary new restrictions continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These policy changes, today, combined with hostility to press and bans this past week are significant, historic and should inform the ongoing stance of media, tech and academia along with governments,&#8221; he said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who is also the CEO of <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/TSLA\/\">Tesla<\/a><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> and SpaceX, has been vocal about his efforts to protect free speech on Twitter. In early November, he claimed he was such a staunch advocate for free speech that he would not ban Sweeney&#8217;s account tracking his plane, which he called a &#8220;direct personal safety risk.&#8221;\u00a0As of Sunday, Sweeney&#8217;s accounts, including his personal account, remained suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the suspended journalists&#8217; accounts were reactivated Saturday, but Business Insider&#8217;s Linette Lopez is still suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also suspended The Washington Post&#8217;s Taylor Lorenz late Saturday night, but her account was reinstated as of Sunday afternoon. Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1604482428281753601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed in a tweet<\/a> that Lorenz was temporarily suspended because of a &#8220;prior doxxing action,&#8221; but she had also recently shared a post with links to her other social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Democracy&#8217;s Howard said Twitter has always been shaped by its users, not by its operators, but that the platform&#8217;s recent changes will influence what it becomes going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2006, Twitter has acted as an information utility, along with a news browser, organizing tool, office watercooler, social network and global platform for protests, campaigns and lies that fueled an insurrection,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The emergent behavior we see in reaction to the past week of changes will shape what Twitter will be in 2023, and to whom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"WatchLiveRightRail-inline WatchLiveRightRail-container\" id=\"RegularArticle-WatchLiveRightRail-7\" data-test=\"watchLiveRightRail-4\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-watchLiveRightRail-7-4\">\n<div class=\"WatchLiveRightRail-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/live-tv\/\" class=\"WatchLiveRightRail-wlButton\">WATCH LIVE<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/4db8932b7ac3e84e3f64.svg\" class=\"WatchLiveRightRail-logo\" alt=\"logo\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/live-tv\/\" class=\"WatchLiveRightRail-wlButtonMobile\">WATCH IN THE APP<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-9 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"PageBuilder-col-12 PageBuilder-col PageBuilder-article\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter said it will no longer allow users to promote other social media accounts on its platform, according to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5028,5458,4089,6570,3987,7800,3819,5127,4253],"class_list":["post-1779717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-allowing","tag-bongino","tag-free","tag-networks","tag-platform","tag-promotion","tag-report","tag-social","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}