Twitter bans its users from connecting to other social networks

Twitter, during the FIFA World Cup final match in Qatar, officially banned its users from connecting to their profiles on other social media platforms such as, for example, mastodonor Facebook or Instagram. It is now forbidden to mention other platforms.

This new policy may want to prevent Twitter users from “posting” their profiles to other networks. The question users ask is, “Where is the freedom of speech, Elon?”.

Musk wants to prevent users from advertising that they have changed their location?
Some of the recent changes in the use of Twitter have been related to some regulatory institutions, such as the US Senate or the US Senate European Union🇧🇷
Elon Musk He has already laid off thousands of employees🇧🇷 Banned journalistssingle users, and is now encroaching on the freedom of quote on other social platforms.
that it means the new policy that Twitter users with access to Mastodon can no longer tell their followers to go there, for example.
Penalties for violating the rules include deletion of offensive tweets and even account suspension.

What is the concern of the head of Twitter?
Where there is smoke, there is fire, as the popular saying goes.  And in fact, after such changes on Twitter, several thousand users left this network and joined Mastodon, for example.
One of the ways Mastodon has allowed it to grow is through services that help migrate Twitter followers by scanning bios for Mastodon IDs.
Assuming Twitter continues to implement its newly announced policy, these services will now stop working as people will not be able to include their Mastodon names in their Twitter bios.
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But what social networks are really "under fire"?
This rule can be changed at any time, moreover, with knowledge The method of work From Musk, nothing is as it started.  In this sense, it is curious at the moment that Twitter has only targeted half a dozen social networks.
The company identifies the banned platforms as Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post, and Nostr.
It also blocks links to aggregators of social media profiles such as linktr. ee🇧🇷 These are the services that offer a unified page for many social networking accounts.
Be aware, an attempted link obfuscation scheme (such as replacing . in the URL with "dot") will also be considered a violation.
Tweets that reference these platforms are also blocked, even if they don't contain a real link.
For example, posting a message on Twitter like "Follow mepplware on Mastodon" is no longer allowed.