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Comment by Trouble_007 | Hacker News Reader

>Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned.

Twitter may have lost more than a million users since Elon Musk took over : https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/03/1062752/twitter-...

[1 hour ago - 4 comments] : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34046074

This does Not bode well;

links to Mastodon, including your Mastodon account in your profile or even the mere mention of Mastodon.

Is this action for the actual bleed? - Or paranoia at the current projected losses? - Competition?

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A million users is insignificant compared to the number of advertisers who have abandoned them, and it's probably causing cash flow problems which is one reason why he was so desperate to chase people away and/or fire them, and why Twitter has been liquidating equipment (that and the huge debt he's generated on Twitter's books.)

Remember how Twitter has stopped paying rent on a bunch of its offices? And Musk just cashed $3.5B in Tesla stock? They probably couldn't pay the rent without people going unpaid.

Not paying your rent is one thing, but not paying employees results in immediate, we-gonna-fuck-you-in-the-ass attention from governments around the world. My state treats non-payment of wages as a criminal offense by the officers of the company.

>A million users is insignificant

True, however high profile account contents matter to both advertisers and other twitter uses.

>Stephen Fry, who last week tweeted an image of Scrabble letters spelling out ‘goodbye’, and abandoned his 12.5 million followers!

Stephen Fry quits Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover : https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/tv/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-...

Update; Twitter bans posting of handles and links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and more : https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/18/twitter-wont-let-you-post-...

>(Update December 19, 2022, 8:40 AM IST):

Twitter has deleted the tweets announcing the policy that prohibited people from posting handles and links to other social networks.

The company has also silently removed the policy page that detailed these rules.

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