Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday requested customers to determine whether or not or not he ought to keep in command of the social media platform as he acknowledged making a mistake in launching extreme speech restrictions with a bid to ban mentions of rival social media web sites. In a drastic coverage change, Twitter introduced that customers shall be “prohibited” to share submit hyperlinks to Fb, Instagram, Mastodon, and different platforms.
The transfer generated plenty of quick backlash resulting in Twitter’s new billionaire proprietor Musk promising to not make any extra main coverage adjustments with out a web-based survey of customers.
Going ahead, there shall be a vote for main coverage adjustments. My apologies. Gained’t occur once more.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
“My apologies. Gained’t occur once more,” Musk tweeted, earlier than initiating a brand new 12-hour ballot asking if he ought to step down as head of Twitter. “I’ll abide by the outcomes of this ballot.”
Ought to I step down as head of Twitter? I’ll abide by the outcomes of this ballot.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Twitter is making an attempt to dam rivals amid Musk’s crackdown on a bunch of accounts. Final week, he shut down a Twitter account that was monitoring the flights of his non-public jet, he additionally suspended the Twitter handles of journalists who he accused of “doxxing” him. He reversed the suspensions on journos after conducting a Twitter ballot.
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Twitter blacklists accounts of different social media platforms
Twitter accounts of Fb, Instagram, and upstart rivals Mastodon, Tribel, Nostr, Submit, and former US president Donald Trump’s Fact Social have been blacklisted. Twitter didn’t clarify why the blacklist included these seven web sites however not others corresponding to Parler, TikTok, or LinkedIn
Twitter on Sunday stated that it’ll take away accounts created solely for selling different social platforms and content material that comprises hyperlinks or usernames.
The transfer would influence content material from social media platforms like Meta Platforms’ Fb and Instagram, together with Mastodon, Fact Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Submit whereas permitting cross-content posting, Twitter assist knowledgeable in a tweet which has now been deleted.
“We nonetheless enable cross-posting content material from any social media platform. Posting hyperlinks or usernames to social media platforms not listed above are additionally not in violation of this coverage,” the Twitter thread talked about.
Brief video-platform TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd, was not included within the record.
Musk has beforehand said that he didn’t wish to be Twitter CEO, hinting that he would discover another person for the job. He’s at the moment CEO of Tesla Inc, SpaceX, The Boring Firm, Neuralink, and the Musk Basis
