Twitter abruptly bans all hyperlinks to Instagram, Mastodon, and different rivals

Twitter will now not enable customers to advertise their presence on sure social platforms, together with Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post. In a post outlining these changes, Twitter says it would take motion in opposition to accounts that violate this coverage “at both the Tweet level and the account level.”

This means customers can now not embrace a hyperlink to their profiles on different social networks of their Twitter bio, nor can they hyperlink to their posts on banned platforms except it’s a cross-post. Twitter additionally says it could droop accounts “used for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform” and can now not enable customers to hyperlink to third-party hyperlink aggregators, like Linktree or Lnk.bio. Twitter is ok with the paid promotion of those banned platforms, nevertheless.

“We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms,” Twitter notes. “In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.”

Twitter says it would take away any tweets that include violations of the coverage, and will quickly droop customers with hyperlinks to banned social platforms of their profiles. It can even take motion in opposition to customers who attempt to get round this coverage by cloaking URLs to different platforms or “spelling out “dot” for social media platforms that use ‘.’ within the names to keep away from URL creation, or sharing screenshots of your deal with on a prohibited social media platform.”