Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others

Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.

The Verge 2022-12-19 Emma Roth

Context & Ripple Effects

The reversal follows Twitter's blocking of Mastodon links and account days earlier, which framed Mastodon as harmful or malware. It also arrives after Musk reinstated several previously barred accounts despite his stated plan for a moderation council, making the policy change part of a rapidly shifting enforcement posture.

Twitter is stepping back from using content rules to restrict users' paths to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and other named services. That matters because profile links and posts are a platform's basic mechanism for directing an audience elsewhere.

First-order effects

Twitter users can again promote their accounts on the named rival platforms without the announced risk of tweet or account removal.
Mastodon and the other named services regain a direct discovery channel on Twitter after the earlier Mastodon-link restrictions.

Second-order effects

Twitter's moderation team must reverse or stop enforcing a cross-platform promotion rule that had expanded the scope of the Mastodon action.
Rival social services no longer face Twitter-imposed friction when trying to convert Twitter users through posts and profile bios.

Third-order effects

The episode points to platform-access rules becoming a volatile competitive lever: abrupt restrictions and reversals make policy predictability a meaningful differentiator among social networks.
Repeated exceptions to announced moderation processes, including the earlier account reinstatements before a moderation council, risk shifting attention from individual enforcement decisions to how Twitter sets and changes rules.

The trend: Social platforms are treating outbound links and account discovery as competitive control points, while Twitter's reversals show the difficulty of sustaining those restrictions as stable policy.

Discussion

Twitter Help Center Twitter Help Center on x
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@louisgray@mastodon.social @louisgray@mastodon.social on mastodon
Friend of mine, hanging on the toxic dregs of MuskStream, saying he can't walk away from the network …
@film_girl@mastodon.social Christina Warren on mastodon
I dunno man, I'm just so disappointed to see my home get burned down this way.
@donieosullivan@mastodon.ie Donie O'Sullivan on mastodon
Seems like a big deal that @Techmeme@techhub.social is now featuring Mastodons prominently.
@sandofsky@mastodon.social Ben Sandofsky on mastodon
Mastodon has cracked the top ten social networking apps in the App Store. For context, Signal is at 15.
@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
[Deleted Tweet] Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@TrungTPhan @stillgray Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme
@facebook @facebook on x
🫣
@juddlegum Judd Legum on x
IMPORTANT: @elonmusk's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules. Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue https://commission.europa.eu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@paulg Paul Graham on x
This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site. https://help.twitter.com/...
@ericfreyss @ericfreyss on x
Any attempt to remove my tweets that link to my other social media accounts, not violating any law, would actually make #twitter an editorial media, and no longer a social media platform, with civil and criminal liability for *any* illegal content therein. https://help.twitter.co…
@jack @jack on x
@TwitterSupport Why?
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@TheQuartering @levie Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account's *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule
@jack @jack on x
@fiatjaf doesn't make sense
@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
More information on this policy, as well as how we will take action on violations, can be found here: https://help.twitter.com/...
@mayemusk Maye Musk on x
This makes absolute sense. When I give a talk for a corporation, I don't promote other corporations. If I did, I would be fired on the spot and never booked again. Is that hard to understand? https://twitter.com/...
@joinmastodon @joinmastodon on mastodon
As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea. https://twitter.com/...
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
Holy 💩 https://twitter.com/...
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@stillgray Exactly. Twitter should be easy to use, but no more relentless free advertising of competitors. No traditional publisher allows this and neither will Twitter.
@goldman Jason Goldman on x
Some context: there's a complicated history of dominant social platforms trying to block emergent ones. But this is typically a fight at the API level. For example Facebook blocked Twitter from “find friends” functionality in 2010. Twitter reciprocated against Instagram in 2012. …
@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
We still allow cross-posting content from any social media platform. Posting links or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are also not in violation of this policy.
@levie Aaron Levie on x
This is just sad 👇 https://twitter.com/...
@_inremote @_inremote on x
You are not allowed to take a screenshot of Twitter's new policy lmao https://twitter.com/...
@macrocephalopod @macrocephalopod on x
lol. lmao. https://twitter.com/...
@bborrman Brandon on x
This might be the single saddest policy I've ever seen. https://twitter.com/...
@levie Aaron Levie on x
Twitter seems to be creating new problems for itself at a faster rate than fixing old ones. Not an ideal flywheel.
@packym Packy McCormick on x
The point of making rules so broad, that so many people were already breaking at the time the rule was put in place, is that you can then arbitrarily ban pretty much anyone for breaking those rules. https://twitter.com/...
@kristyt Kristy Tillman on x
My favorite “how it started” vs “how its going” https://twitter.com/...
@howard Howard Lerman on x
Holy shit looks like @paulg (Formerly Paul Graham) was banned. This is going to end badly.
@chronotope Aram Zucker-Scharff on x
They said they allow you to pay to promote links to other platform, but considering how it was immediately reject from promotion it seems that automation is being used to make that line a... uhhh... total lie. Turns out you *can't* use paid ads or promotion for those platforms. h…
@molly0xfff Molly White on x
no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them. free speech! https://t.co/S3ZnwxkvSQ
@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others
@briankrebs @briankrebs on x
LOL. The CEO of Twitter has gone full despot/dictator mode. You can now get banned for mentioning your Insta, FB, Mastodon, Post, or other. You know a country is in full freedom mode when it starts shutting its borders for people trying to leave! https://twitter.com/...
@stillgray Ian Miles Cheong on x
You are allowed to crosspost to other platforms. You just can't create or turn your account into a free advertising unit for one of the listed competing platforms.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@jasondebolt Exactly
@joshconstine @joshconstine on x
you gotta admit this all makes Zuckerberg's steady hands on 18 years of unilateral power look commendable.
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@BillyM2k Paul's account will be restored shortly
@jjvincent James Vincent on x
this is just insane from twitter — you literally can't now tweet “follow me @username” on Instagram https://help.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@alexstamos Alex Stamos on x
The EU has been looking to establish the new DSA and DMA as weapons against US tech and Twitter is making it too easy. You can follow me at https://cybervillains.com/@alex when I'm suspended for some post-hoc rationalization.
@balajis Balaji on x
This is a bad policy and should be reversed. The right way to compete is to build a better product, not to restrict the use of your product. https://twitter.com/...
@alexstamos Alex Stamos on x
This is the clearest declaration of weakness I've ever seen from a major US tech platform, and a transparent declaration of anticompetitive intent that a GC would set themselves on fire to prevent (if somebody had that job at Twitter). https://twitter.com/...
@rsg Bobby Goodlatte on x
I remain supportive of Elon's efforts at Twitter, but this is an incredibly bad decision https://twitter.com/...
@stevanzetti @stevanzetti on x
https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@socialistdogmom Molly Conger on x
ok so you can't ask people to follow you on instagram without even linking to it but you CAN cross post your instagram pics directly to twitter, thereby linking directly to that account, this makes perfect sense https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@tumblr @tumblr on x
Oh. https://twitter.com/...
@auersusan @auersusan on x
I just checked with the other hip social media platform, called the European Union, and looks like their TOS override Twitter's TOS. 😈 https://commission.europa.eu/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
Paul Graham - founder of Y Combinator, and someone who was supportive of Elon Musk since the Twitter takeover - announced he's taking a break from Twitter, and suggested people can find his Mastodon account on his website. He was banned a few hours later. I cannot believe it... h…
@benedictevans Benedict Evans on x
There's plenty of scope for analytical comment on this. But it is also just pathetic. I can't link an IG post here? How absolutely pathetic. https://twitter.com/...
@satisfactoryaf @satisfactoryaf on x
We recognize that many of our players play other video games. However, we will no longer allow Satisfactory players to play any other video games such as Minecraft, Goat Simulator, God of War, Runescape, Final Fantasy. Stray is okay though. Cute cat. Also the mouse game is okay. …
@liv_agar Liv on x
WHAT???? https://twitter.com/...
@richardhanania Richard Hanania on x
Understandable. Try hanging out at KFC and trying to talk people into going to Popeye's. NYT wouldn't let a journalist use her articles to direct people towards her Substack. Maybe it feels sudden and arbitrary, but again, welcome to the world non-leftists have always lived in. h…
@paulg Paul Graham on x
@skyler_fs It's not impossible. Elon is a smart guy. He doesn't currently understand how different social media is from cars and rockets, but he could well figure it out before it's too late.
@carnage4life @carnage4life on x
Elon is doing a better job of convincing me to check out Mastodon than all the people with weird display names asking when I'm going to start tooting.
@pythianism Vance Spencer on x
im old enough to remember when jack cut off twitter api access to a generation of startups and killed them https://twitter.com/...
@taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x
This is so subjective it's meaningless https://twitter.com/...
@erikvoorhees Erik Voorhees on x
Value of demonstrated long term commitment to free speech > marginal short term loss of users Especially when the primary impetus for user loss is the lack of commitment to free speech... https://twitter.com/...
@rsg Bobby Goodlatte on x
We had debates about this back in the day at Facebook. But only about API-level access, never about individual users choosing to post links to other networks It was always just assumed that it was the right thing to do to allow posting any link so long as it wasn't against TOS
@benedictevans Benedict Evans on x
JFC https://twitter.com/...
@moorehn Heidi N. Moore on x
Paul didn't even post a link. He just said he has a presence elsewhere. What this actually shows is that Elno is using the vague policy to just ban anyone he doesn't like https://twitter.com/...
@timsweeneyepic Possibly Tim Sweeney on x
@tomwarren That's insane.
@juddlegum Judd Legum on x
Musk continues to play Calvinball. Now he says “casually” sharing links to competitors is fine but “relentless advertising of competitors” will result in being banned. (None of this is actually specified in the policy announced today.) https://twitter.com/...
@razlol @razlol on x
EU regulations protecting American consumers once again ty https://twitter.com/...
@ajreid Alastair Reid on x
The chief scientific advisor for France's military police 👇 https://twitter.com/...
@jarvis Jarvis Johnson on x
do not always be plugging https://twitter.com/...
@shaun_vids Shaun on x
musk really went from “i'm a free speech absolutist, i just want to bring twitter's speech policies in line with what is legal” to “i will ban you for mentioning your facebook account” in a few months lol
@nextspaceflight Michael Baylor on x
This policy change buried during the World Cup Final sets a very dangerous precedent. I fear it may expand in scope with time. @elonmusk support an open internet and reverse this change. People should post their content natively on Twitter because it is better, not by force. http…
@stevanzetti @stevanzetti on x
Eyyy, I void my section 230 protections by identifying as a publisher! Oh!!! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@bnwkr Ben on x
@TwitterSafety Considering it's illegal... Go for it! https://twitter.com/...
@janalbrecht Jan Philipp Albrecht on x
So #twitter is a publisher. So that is it, let's apply all laws accordingly. Thanks. https://twitter.com/...
@johnhultquist John Hultquist🌻 on x
Things are really speeding up here at the end!!!
@drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste on x
tumblr banned me for posting external links from my tumblr to other websites, so you might wanna skip chiming in on this one https://twitter.com/...
@pt Parker on x
You're not breaking up with me, I'm breaking up with YOU! https://twitter.com/...
@iamdcinvestor @iamdcinvestor on x
Twitter is useful partially because the “nexus metaverse” presence for a lot of people start restricting how it can be used, and it starts to become a lot less useful what's next, Twitter launches a video service and bans YouTube links? short-sighted & weak looking @elonmusk http…
@adamsinger Adam Singer on x
Facebook and Instagram do all they can to stop any outbound linking and organic traffic referrals and no one bats an eye. Twitter does it and everyone loses their minds (rounding error of traffic in comparison, btw). I for one think you should be able to link wherever you want...
@flodebarre Flo Débarre on x
Don't let football distract you from this insane new Twitter policy https://help.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@timsweeneyepic Possibly Tim Sweeney on x
The essential reason to support free speech is: any organization we give the power to decide what we're allowed to say will quickly abuse that power to their own political, economic, or petty ends. https://twitter.com/...
@pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings on x
Note that it's not *just* asking your followers to move platform, or where to find you elsewhere, it's also linking to that content *in general*, other than dual-posting https://twitter.com/...
@janalbrecht Jan Philipp Albrecht on x
Now, where is the European Commission when it's needed to uphold EU law @vonderleyen, @vestager, @ThierryBreton? The world is watching you, @EU_Commission! This is the moment, Europe has to take leadership on #twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
there is some precedent to this twitter and instagram wouldn't let folks bootstrap off each others friend graphs for a long time (maybe still?) and Facebook would chop API access to any startup they felt a growing threat building off the graph (it wasn't this explicit, though) ht…
@punk6529 @punk6529 on x
You are supposed to degrade reach without saying anything. Anyway, open metaverse or it is going to be 100x worse than this https://twitter.com/...
@nicoleperlroth Nicole Perlroth on x
How it started. How it's going. https://twitter.com/...
@tcarmody Tim Carmody on x
Mastodon instance owners should file complaints with the FTC, here: https://www.ftc.gov/... (I assume Meta etc are already on it) https://twitter.com/...
@mims Christopher Mims on x
incredible https://twitter.com/...
@cdixon @cdixon on x
Can't be evil > don't be evil
@carnage4life @carnage4life on x
The real problem with Twitter right now is that you can't opt-out of Elon content even with muting him or his name. It was fun for a bit but it's just tedious now.
@briankrebs @briankrebs on x
Also LOL: Twitter complained that I was trying to spread malware blah blah by changing my profile background like I just did. But it still let me. I can't decide which is funnier: Wrongfully accusing me of willfully spreading malware, or accusing me & letting me do it anyway.
@ryanqnorth Ryan North on x
In the 90s, AOL tried to build their own walled garden, where everything worth seeing was inside AOL and the rest of the internet was as an afterthought, something less than the wonders only AOL itself offered. Even then, you could still email non-AOL addresses. Anyway, it failed
@twschaller Thomas W Schaller on x
We are now forbidden on Twitter to post links or cross references to all other social media sites as well as site aggregate links such linktree, etc. For those of us who are working artists who need these links for our businesses to survive, this decision seems draconian. https:/…
@osinteng @osinteng on x
This change in policy is very concerning and breaks a core use of Twitter. I had previously used Twitter as a content aggregator, to keep up with creators on other platforms YouTube, etc. If @elonmusk really wants creators to stay then making Twitter a walled garden won't work ht…
@realgeorgehotz @realgeorgehotz on x
You can't run a country or company by banning discussion of leaving, you have to just provide a better service. This will backfire.
@dril Wint on x
https://linktr.ee/... dont you dare click on this illegal list of web sites that are better than twitter
@davidcorndc David Corn on x
So now we're a “publisher,” @elonmusk? If so, that comes with certain obligations and legal liabilities. https://twitter.com/...
@graceonfootball @graceonfootball on x
We are on red alert. Musk could commit an all time piece of cultural vandalism. https://twitter.com/...
@dannywallace Danny Wallace on x
Looks like this is becoming untenable. So every Sunday I'll meet you by the bins outside Primark Loughborough at 5pm and fill you in on my thoughts, unless the clown bans Primark or Loughborough or 5pm. https://twitter.com/...
@yashar @yashar on x
You are not banned, however, from promoting your TikTok account. https://twitter.com/...
@gfodor @gfodor on x
Breaking posting break to say this is fundamentally anti-free speech in a way the other changes have not been. I strongly oppose it. https://twitter.com/...
@vaushv @vaushv on x
Absolutely incredible that seeing constant promotion of mastodon (promotion which, let's be real, doesn't hurt Twitter at all) made Elon so upset that he broke down and asked his engineers to give us one of the clearest case studies of anti-competitive behavior in recent history …
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
to be clear this is miles beyond what others have done, just not without some similar behavior in the past https://twitter.com/...
@markharrisnyc Mark Harris on x
The word “occasional” is all the evidence you need that this “policy” is unvetted sulky harrumphing that a freaked-out dilettante is making up as he goes along. What's “occasional”? And who's going to monitor it—his vast new skeleton staff? https://twitter.com/...
@leftatlondon @leftatlondon on x
elon tweets shit like “users are tweeting 30% more today than before I became ceo 😎” & every time its just ppl tweeting “i hope elons spine gets hit dead on with a sledgehammer so hard he passes out. I hope ppl think he's dead but dont bother to check so he gets cremated alive.”
@harddrivemag @harddrivemag on x
twitter is already by far the worst social media site for driving traffic outside of i guess Instagram because that doesn't have links. we have almost 4x as many followers here than on Facebook and somehow FB gets us almost as much traffic as Twitter. Facebook! the old ppl site!
@heyjenbartel Jen Bartel on x
This place is so intensely hostile toward artists 🥲 https://twitter.com/...
@sfiegerman Seth Fiegerman on x
Not to state the obvious but: Elon Musk owns Twitter, he is currently its only board director and he gets to pick the next CEO (if there is one) and tell that person what to do. CEO title or not, it's still Elon in charge, as much as he wants to be.
@asharangappa_ @asharangappa_ on x
Twitter becoming the North Korea of social media https://twitter.com/...
@sproutwiki @sproutwiki on x
Every single artist, content creator, small business, etc has a link in their bio to help them live. This is so incredibly unfair, it's going to cause so many people who depend on twitter for survival to be banned. Just cruel. https://twitter.com/...
@rsg Bobby Goodlatte on x
Even on the API level, we wound up being the far more permissive platform Ironic considering how FB was accused of being a “walled garden” compared to “open” Twitter Tweets were allowed to automatically post to FB if enabled by the user. The reverse was never allowed by Twitter
@visakanv @visakanv on x
@elonmusk what about competing social media platforms? https://twitter.com/...
@tomabacon Tom Bacon on x
@TwitterSupport There's always a tweet, isn't there? @elonmusk https://twitter.com/...
@charlottebhc Charlotte Bayes on x
This is absolutely unhinged? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@szhang_ds Sophie Zhang on x
Note the commonality: All of the social media now banned on Twitter is Western. Chairman Musk is specifically avoiding banning e.g. PRC social media (TikTok, Weibo, WeChat, etc.) 伟大光荣正确的埃隆马斯克主席 strikes again! https://twitter.com/...
@erratarob @erratarob on x
My tweets get cross-posted to Mastodon. My tweets are frequently quoted in the press when I respond to cybersec events. I suggest you quote the Mastodon versions rather than the Twitter versions. Give it a try.
@alexeheath Alex Heath on x
Life comes at you fast. Or in this case, just over a month https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@alexzac Alex Zaccaria on x
Linktree's audience is at the heart of what we build every day and we will continue to fight for what is best for our 30 million plus users.
@larakate @larakate on x
Great marketing moment for @Linktree_ which genuinely exists to help creators centralize and create a hub for their content. Good to see who cares about creators ability to succeed and who doesn't.
@benhouston3d @benhouston3d on x
@Scobleizer One great thing is TechMeme now features M posts. You can find a lot of great people to follow there. https://techmeme.com/
@bobby @bobby on x
if twitter gets shut down you can find me standing on a crate outside the times square m&m's store saying things that are mildly humorous but not necessarily jokes, like They Should Make A Jacket For Your Legs. https://twitter.com/...
@ldrogen Leigh Drogen on x
Best legislative solution to social media mess is still to require all social graphs to be open and portable to other platforms Very easy bill for congress to write, not very cumbersome for small platforms to implement
@litcapital @litcapital on x
Waiting for the Musk meat riders to explain this one https://twitter.com/...
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
The pathetic smell of fear... and a very easy way for Twitter to now justify banning accounts for old tweets. Pretty sure most active users have linked to other social at some point. https://twitter.com/...
@nicoleperlroth Nicole Perlroth on x
No joke. Fun fact! European countries (notably Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Austria) issue speeding fines as a % of annual income... believe the record was 1M CHF (~$1.2M). https://twitter.com/...
@pewilliams_ @pewilliams_ on x
Meta v. Twitter lawsuit seems inevitable if this holds.
@jack @jack on x
Current coverage: https://nostr.watch/
@jules_su Jules Suzdaltsev on x
lmao you literally can't say “follow me @username on Instagram” in their own example lol what a joke ahahaha https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@scottadamssays Scott Adams on x
I love the transparency and the rapid testing and adjusting. Watching it play out is like getting a business degree. https://twitter.com/...
@219_eth @219_eth on x
woof. linktree ban this is not well thought out, lol https://twitter.com/...
@elivalley @elivalley on x
Using the word “mastodon” is now more likely to get you banned than calling for the extermination of entire communities https://twitter.com/...
@andrewperpetua Andrew Perpetua on x
This is @elonmusk Publicly admitting that he is having a total meltdown over his catastrophic failure at running twitter and the absolute bloodbath he is suffering from users fleeing as fast as possible. This is what censorship actually looks like, in case you were curious. https…
@brendankeefe Brendan Keefe on x
I dipped back into Twitter only to report this to the @FTC as a possible anti-trust violation. I have also filed a formal notification to antitrust@ftc.gov. Otherwise, I hope to be back on Twitter in January. I'm suspending myself for a few weeks. https://help.twitter.com/... htt…
@tyleroakley Tyler Oakley on x
what is casual what is occasional like?? he's making it up as he goes https://twitter.com/...
@donmoyn Don Moynihan on x
Exactly. Twitter is for all intents and legal purposes a publisher, responsible for the content on its platform. Why are people making a big deal about this? https://twitter.com/...
@dougsaunders Doug Saunders on x
The link ban shifts Twitter from the “telephone exchange” category of communication business to the “radio station” category of communication business. The latter are generally legally liable for anything that's said on their stations... https://twitter.com/...
@alexisohanian @alexisohanian on x
For the many non-tech folks who follow me, it'll be interesting to watch who picks sides here between the YC Community (PG) and the Paypal Mafia (Elon) — both are entrenched communities in Silicon Valley (and usually pretty aligned).
@josephpolitano @josephpolitano on x
Elephant in the room is that Twitter is banning links to it's major American social media competitors (all the way down to something I've never heard of called Nostr) but not TikTok/Weibo because Musk doesn't want to upset the CCP given Tesla's involvement in China. https://twitt…
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
Looks like Elon's sales pitch also convinced Paul Graham. Another master class on running a social media site from Twitter's CEO https://twitter.com/...
@cosmonautmarcus Mar'cus on x
Definitely up there as the second dumbest thing he's done on here so far https://twitter.com/...
@rubberninja RubberRoss on x
I recognize that many of my of my viewers watch other YouTubers. However, I will no longer allow viewers to watch other creators videos on YouTube.
@snowden Edward Snowden on x
ayfkm https://twitter.com/...
@kairossbest Kai Ross-Best on x
Delete your Instagram then @Twitter https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@levie Aaron Levie on x
@elonmusk I think Twitter should focus on solving “bigger” problems, personally. This just isn't one. Add more free features that make the product better for everyone, focus on advertisers and getting more b2b revenue. Most importantly, Twitter shouldn't be the story on Twitter e…
@jasondebolt @jasondebolt on x
You're free to speak, but you gotta pay to advertise. Sounds reasonable to me. https://twitter.com/...
@gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x
Incredible: he got suspended. https://twitter.com/...
@bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x
I'm not surprised Elon is rolling out policies designed to do exactly this re: Twitter users critical of him, but I am *a little* surprised that he's doing it in a way that makes it 100% clear exactly what he is doing, completely maximizing how pathetic it makes him look https://…
@jonkristinsson Jón on x
https://twitter.com/...
@heerjeet Jeet Heer on x
Remember when Jon Kay posted on Twitter that he had mistakenly been using dog shampoo for months, then people started making fun of him, which led his mom to start posting defenses of her special boy. I used to think that was unbeatable comedy. https://twitter.com/...
@alexzac Alex Zaccaria on x
. @elonmusk please don't make me sell my @Tesla
@kfury @kfury on x
This is basically Twitter's Red Wedding. https://twitter.com/...
@maxboot @maxboot on x
Getting suspended by Musk on Twitter is becoming a badge of honor like being sanctioned by Putin.
@adam22 @adam22 on x
😂😂😂 this app is North Korea now https://twitter.com/...
@realgeorgehotz George Hotz on x
Agreed that's this is an absolutely ridiculous policy. My bio link has been a link to my Instagram since I created this Twitter. Feel free to ban me. https://twitter.com/...

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