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Comment by flutas

2 years ago

>It's news to me that that users are not allowed to mention other social networks' accounts on Twitter anymore.

Isn't that a mischaracterization though? The new policy they announced, as far as I've seen, only applies if the account is "solely" promoting other brands. [0]

> 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.

[0]: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/160453126541959168...

EDIT:

The tweet linked seems to be the mischaracterization and not this take.

Reading the full policy[1] does say that, while their tweets don't.

[1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

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tobylane  2 years ago

That may be the written policy, but there were widespread reports of mastodon ('s largest sites) being considered too harmful a link to be put in a twitter bio. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

I don't see PG reacting to that news on twitter. Is there a reaction anywhere?

  • flutas  2 years ago

    > That may be the written policy, but there were widespread reports of mastodon ('s largest sites) being considered too harmful a link to be put in a twitter bio. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...

    I saw that and assumed (maybe wrongly) that it was an automated ban from some internal automod-like system running amuck and due to the layoffs/quits/staff issues no body at Twitter knowing how to disable it.

    Guess the jury is still out, but does anybody know if that same error is showing up for facebook links for example? If so it's a smoking gun.

  • mmastrac  2 years ago

    I just tested a few mins ago and I wasn't able to tweet a link to a post on hachyderm (not even just my profile) because it was "harmful".

russdill  2 years ago

"At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms"

jeffbee  2 years ago
  • flutas  2 years ago

    > Read it with your entire brain.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

    Don't be an ass.

    > 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.

    I'm reading it explicitly how it's written when taking the grammar into account. [0] I've even expanded it below, so that you can see how it reads without a comma.

    > we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms

    AND

    > we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.

    Looking at the full policy though, yeah their tweets aren't in line with what the full policy states.[1]

    [0]: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-before-and/

    [1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...