The corporate had removed the tweets announcing the policy that banned people from posting handles and links to other social networks. It also quietly removed the policy page containing those rules. Meanwhile, the Twitter Safety account began conducting a poll asking users whether the company should formulate a policy on accounts used just to promote other social networks.

Should we develop a policy that prevents account creation or utilization of existing accounts in order to basically advertise other social networking sites?

After Twitter changed its policy, it faced a lot of criticism. To a user in a retweet, Musk said that the policy will be revised to suspend accounts whose sole intention is to advertise other social media. So far, Twitter has made no public announcement on this.
 
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It turned out that Twitter wanted to end the main event on a scandalous note when it banned links promoting other social networks while people around the globe are watching this long-awaited final of the FIFA World Cup. The list already includes Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post. Meanwhile, link-in-bio tools, such as Linktree and Lnk.Bio, are also banned — services that are commonly used both by creators and businesses. Basically, you cannot share links to your other social profiles or even write out your handle in a tweet.

The Elon Musk-owned firm "no longer allows free promotion of particular social media platforms" on Twitter. The firm said that it is eliminating all accounts "created solely for the purpose of promoting other social networks." It also is planning to eliminate links to content from above said social platforms.

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We, however, understand that most of our users would be active on other social media platforms; "Going forward, Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms on Twitter," said the social platform in its policy page.

The company said that if a user links out their handles, Twitter will ask him to delete those tweets; and even multiple violations of this policy will result in a temporary account lock. Otherwise, if you have links to any of these platforms in your bio, it will temporarily suspend your account and ask you to change your bio.

The intriguing aspect is that the company led by Musk will allow you to post a handle if you pay for the promotion of the tweet.

On Saturday night, Twitter suspended the account belonging to Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz. Lorenz also recently deleted all of her tweets, except three: two promoting other social media accounts and one asking Musk for comment on a story she is reporting with Drew Harwell, another Post writer. Other journalists suspended for a day include Harwell after reporting how Mastodon's Twitter had just got banned for linking users to the Elon Jet Mastodon account. Journalist Donie O'Sullivan of CNN and Ryan Mac of The New York Times are some of the suspended journalists. After conducting a poll on what people thought of the journalists' suspension, Musk reinstated them.

The policy is also relatively new. Lorenz posted all of her other social media handles and was suspended. Her account appears to be reinstated as of press time.