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Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms?

I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a variety of purposes and find and share great content across platforms.

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Come speech freely on Twitter! You can share any link from any platform in this list of platforms right here:

* Twitter

Elonjet is on FB, Insta, Mastodon, and Truth Social. I'm not surprised if this blanket ban was partially motivated by his obsession over the made-up doxxing accusations over ADS-B data.

Instagram prohibits links, period, not just to other platforms. This is where "link in bio" comes from.

They hate the web.

To be fair - it looks like twitter is also banning links in bio here?

Since they're banning Linktree (which exists primarily for that purpose) it sounds like they are. I hate that Twitter is turning into a closed platform like Instagram.

To be fair, this started way before Elon. Yes you could link to individual posts but as soon as you read through the direct reply a soft paywall comes up. Your experience as signed out user was - and still is - awful.

Didn't Elon say he was gonna stop those walls?

Requiring user sign-ins is a little bit different than banning all mention of other social media websites existing.

Yes, absolutely. I’m not equating the two. But I do think that requiring sign-in for “town square” public discussions is.. questionable. Imo, Twitter (and others, they’re not at all alone) want to enjoy all the benefits of being an open platform, but doesn’t want to deal with the implications.

Most of the time you can't even view a public Instagram post without being logged into an Instagram account.

You can post URLs on your Insta posts, it's just not a clickable link. Twitter's policy is any text that describes other social media sites is banned, including trying to get around it by using "dot" ("instagram dot com/user" is banned on Twitter).

This isn't really the same as Insta.

"Another thing is also bad!" does not justify the first thing being bad.

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