Anyone who wanted to prepare their own exit from Twitter slowly and in a structured manner and make their followers aware of their profiles on other social media platforms was now faced with a link ban for this particular type of tweet. Crossposting, i.e. linking to real content such as articles or videos, should remain permitted, but not the promotion of profiles on Facebook, Instagram or the Twitter alternative Mastodon, which is growing rapidly in German-speaking countries. At least not unpaid. Now the surprising turnaround. Although, there's hardly anything surprising on Twitter at the moment?!
Link ban: Twitter does not want unpaid advertising for accounts on other platforms
The new rule in the Twitter support area described the now banned links as unwanted, free advertising for other social media platforms. Twitter expressly named the platforms Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr as well as 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee or lnk.bio. ( HERE )
The selection of platforms was interesting. While Truth Social also hit Donald Trump's new playground, the Chinese platforms WeChat and TikTok were still permitted, as was the very right-wing service Parler. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new platform, Nostr, was also affected.
Prohibited formulations were explicitly mentioned, such as:
- “follow me @username on Instagram”
- “username@mastodon.social”
- “check out my profile on Facebook – facebook.com/username”
It should also be forbidden to describe links with “dot” instead of “.” so that the address cannot be recognized as a link. Also prohibited: accounts that only serve to promote profiles outside of Twitter. Violations of the new policy should first be punished by monitoring the account to see whether it remains an isolated case. If there were several violations, the accounts would be blocked.

Links to content and paid advertising for the other platforms were also permitted.
One of the affected platforms, Facebook, took the announcement with humor...
Twitter probably doesn't like churn
In summary, the impression was that Twitter, aka boss Elon Musk, reacted very sensitively and was annoyed by the tendency of a large number of users to migrate to other platforms. The whole topic of leaving Twitter should probably be massively reduced in visibility. The fact that such advertising should not be paid for also seemed to have annoyed the new owner of the blue bird.
The discussion-loving community on Twitter didn't let all this sit and wrote against it properly. There was a lot of criticism both on the platform itself and outside of it.
Now the about-face
Less than twenty-four hours later, Twitter has withdrawn these controversial regulations. The now outdated tweets about the new regulation and the corresponding support pages can no longer be found on the Twitter servers, only via web.archive.org .
Instead, Musk suddenly pointed out that major rule changes will be voted on in the future. An apology followed. For what exactly remained unclear. In any case, at some point the tweets and support pages about the new regulations disappeared. But Elon Musk started a new, sensational survey.
New vote on Elon Musk himself
The Twitter boss immediately followed up with action and put himself up for a vote. Should he remain head of Twitter? Yes or no. He will stick to the result. As spectacular as it sounds, this turn of events was foreseeable sooner or later, as Musk had already announced when he took over Twitter that he would only see himself as an interim for the realignment of the platform and then withdraw from the operational business.
The vote has now been completed and the majority of the community rejects Musk remaining as CEO. The big question now is when will Musk retire and, almost more importantly, who will take over? The first rumors are already on the way.
In short, things remain exciting on Twitter. Will the blue bird fly again or is it just making a sensational crash landing?
Sources:
Web.Archive.Org
Heise
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