Twitter bans links to rival social media

Twitter announced Sunday that it would bar users from directly posting links to rival social media websites, calling that "free promotion." Twitter said it would eliminate accounts created to promote rival sites, including Facebook, Instagram, Truth Social, Mastodon, Tribel, Post, and Nostr, but later deleted the blog post and tweets announcing the policy. The ban covered tweets urging people to follow an account on one of these sites, or tweeting a direct link to one of these sites' accounts. Some Twitter users who have left the platform since Elon Musk bought it in October, and others who Musk has banned, have urged people to follow them on alternative platforms, such as Mastodon.