@mmasnick Does he not realise how many "normal users" use and have linktrees?

@mmasnick this is ridiculous lol

@mmasnick LMAO. Good luck #Elmo.

What's the old saying? F around and find out?

@mmasnick the speed run of the failing 90s message board strategies continues.

@mmasnick Your tweets aren't at Twitter, Mike! They're in Joan's house! And Mr. Postini's house!

@mmasnick Would you say this will become an example of the Streisand effect?

By which I mean would you, specifically, say that into a microphone so we can get a soundbite of it for posterity?

@mmasnick serves as a stark reminder that if one is purchasing a social media site, what they are really purchasing is the list of registered users.

@mmasnick

And its not like we can't find people elsewhere without a link in a bird site profile?

@mmasnick 😂

@mmasnick The cultists rushing to defend this will be gross

@mmasnick TikTok, Gab, Gettr not banned.

@mmasnick

#twitterisland

@mmasnick speech gone, reach gone ...

@mmasnick we all need to give out a collective booing on bird site 🤣

@mmasnick I said this over there too, but this self-own is absolutely going to be historic.

@mmasnick I wonder whether aknowledging existence of other social media sites is also a permaban...

@mmasnick But the important question, is comedy still legal?

@mmasnick Major FTC rules violation.

@mmasnick notably Tiktok isn't on that list 🤔

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This is just too funny. The desperation in all this..

@mmasnick much speech. Such free.

@mmasnick Each day brings a new level of cray-cray and hypocrisy.

@mmasnick link to source? Sorry, I've been seeing some believable but ultimately fake screen captures from the birdsite.

@mmasnick lmao

@mmasnick I guess we've hit the "keyword filters don't work" stage in the moderation learning curve.

...I feel like we should maybe think of another name for that. When it comes to whatever the fuck it is Musk is doing at Twitter, any description with the word "learning" in it is clearly a misnomer.

@mmasnick, not that I expect any consistency, of course, but what's the difference between linking to another social site and, um, linking to *anything* else separate from the site?

I do raise this partially because it makes me wonder if that's next - throttling or prohibiting links to (disfavored) news sites. Really, it's time to break away from that place.

@mmasnick Does he think this is a bankrun and he can just stop withdrawals?

@mmasnick I’m now wondering if the “we removed you saying where you posted from” was really a backdoor to prevent any third party API saying you’re posting via another platform (and to go there instead).

@mmasnick @taylorlorenz There’s always a tweet.

@mmasnick so changing my profile pic to my mastodon screen name is a violation but if I want to use my linked in or I was on some rabid right wing troll farm social platform I’d be fine. What a douche.

@mmasnick Nothing says ‘these are the best numbers Twitter’s ever seen!’ quite like this.

@mmasnick omg not even allowed to provide the username. What a big baby.

@mmasnick POS fascist

@mmasnick twitter locking down. Nobody can escape

@mmasnick RorschachInPrison.jpeg

@mmasnick well nice while it lasted, everyone I fallow on twitter is scatoring to the wind (a bunch of difrent sites) end of a era.

@mmasnick A capitalist that is used to buying out his competition has no idea what to do when the free market happens is rich

@mmasnick Looks like I’m getting banned after the fact for having Mastodon in my username. So glad I left that hellhole

@mmasnick So by prohibiting linktr.ee he's going to hurt most people with a network of professional sites?

@mmasnick If they actually enforced that, the place would be empty. It'll only be applied to his enemies.

That might still be a lot of people.

@mmasnick
Oh this is awesome!

Anyone remember the grass mud horse and other censorship work-arounds? Comedy gold!

@mmasnick Is the a real Twitter policy? Given Musk I don't doubt it but... golly.

@mmasnick now is the time for about.me to reign again!

@mmasnick 😂

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The final instruction should be, "And finally, have fun!"

@mmasnick on the bird, I looked at profiles to see where they were going. Not that I had a big account, but this should fall within his new rules. Easy for them to search terms, but they can’t search images as easily, can they? Birds could write their new locations on their headers, couldn’t they?

@mmasnick I changed my username to my mastodon url a while back. I also put my Counter Social link in my profile and a pic with both Mastodon and Post links. I wonder how long my account will last.

@mmasnick Soooo, MySpace and Tumblr get a pass? …innnteresting 🤔

@mmasnick the 'paid promotion is okay' loophole in the new policy is interesting because it means they can't plausibly say this is a safety issue -- it's purely anticompetitive

@mmasnick hahahahah twitter is over

@mmasnick And then there's this when you click a Mastodon link that was created before this Free Speech extravaganza

@mmasnick You knew it was going to happen. I’m out of there. The water over here is much nicer.

@mmasnick Let's try if I can quote my own posts on mastodon: https://ruhr.social/@felix/109536146940367988

@mmasnick #EastBerlin vibes

@mmasnick

I want to burn my twitter user name. That's an excellent way to get my account banned without violating reasonable TOS on any other platform.

Working on it now!

@mmasnick I'm not expert in anything but isn't competition the main driver for innovation - at least according to libertarians? If Musk locks out any competition, doesn't that make him a... socialist??? :blobcatscared:

@mmasnick so much for free speech policy

@mmasnick I logged into my account to see if I can speedrun my way into getting banned

@mmasnick @Standplaats_KRK yeah what does this have to mean for twitters user numbers

@mmasnick That complicates the concept of social media 🤔

@mmasnick What step of the social media speedrun is literally banning the name of every other social media network?

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It seemed to work to put a screenshot of my Mastodon profile as my pinned Tweet. People on Twitter can’t just click a link, but they can see where to go.

@mmasnick @taylorlorenz https://tenor.com/view/starship-troopers-paul-verhoeven-robert-heinlein-only-good-bug-is-a-dead-bug-its-afraid-gif-23642454

@mmasnick #ElonPutz is not barring the doors. He’s boarding up the windows so those still in the building can’t see who’s leaving and where they’re going to. He doesn’t like sunshine. Folks can’t see that the grass is greener outside.

@mmasnick this is absolutely insane

@mmasnick isn’t it funny how right wing sites like Gab, Parler and Gettr aren’t included?

@mmasnick The King Joffrey of Twitter...

@mmasnick I put mine in my bio vs posting

@mmasnick The free speech absolutist is actually a speech control freak.

@mmasnick Very curious about the numbers going around at Twitter right now. No doubt the platform has had it’s most active period with all this drama. At the same time lots of people are leaving.

@mmasnick I noticed this today as I was trying to add my Mastodon handle to my Twitter bio and it kept telling me I was linking to malware. 😂 RIP bird app.

@mmasnick he bans linktree but not your own website, so I just gotta post up the link to my Mastodon on my website that's linked on Twitter

@mmasnick the peach has been frozen

@mmasnick @TabathaSouthey my server is very slow right now so I think people are fleeing

@mmasnick lol I found out this from this tweet and just deleted it from my Twitter profile before I get banned. So dumb.

@mmasnick The prom scene in Carrie.

@mmasnick Onlyflan seems conspicuously absent.

@mmasnick @taylorlorenz I‘ve put my username into the location field. Let‘s see how long it will take to ban me.

That said, to check this I had to log in again and was shocked by the number of ads delivered to me. Definitely more than ever before.

@mmasnick that second rule about link aggregators is the one that pisses me off. Many sex workers using that way to promote their work on different platforms.
Now they going to be in danger of getting suspended?

@mmasnick this isn’t locking us in, this is pushing us out! We don’t have to stay if he’s making the place hostile.

@mmasnick Me. All morning. Watching this insanity unfold.

@mmasnick Sounds like LinkedIn is a friend of Twitter. Or maybe someone just forgot that it exists 🤷

@mmasnick soon you won't be able to delete your tweets.

@mmasnick also TikTok seems to be fine.

@mmasnick another item to add in https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/

@mmasnick lately we forget how shitty meta is. The same is on Instagram with a lot of "forbidden" site. But unlike on Twitter you won't get a notice only your account gets shadow banned.

@mmasnick wrong - Twitter user engagement is up - the world doesn’t revolve around 20 something Palo Alto left wing activists

@mmasnick a sure way to scare users away from twitter 😆

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https://functional.cafe/@kupac/109536242477895106

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So is he going to suspend Facebook’s Twitter account then?

@mmasnick last straw I’m out

@mmasnick good

@mmasnick I just keep tweeting yesterday's wapo article about how to get started on mastodon. I'll continue to do that til my account is closed.

@mmasnick I'm still waiting for Mark Zuckerberg to ban me from facebook for sharing my Mastadon links. Oh wait, he doesn't have to.

@mmasnick Wow!

@mmasnick @enbrown

It doesn't look like an outright block to *all* Mastodon links. Here's what I get from my 11/7/22 tweet directing my Twitter followers to my Mastodon account (by link). I was able to follow the link to my profile in the Twitter browser after this.

Perhaps it's a prospective policy change that doesn't affect old tweets and activity?

@mmasnick @taylorlorenz from an anti-trust perspective, is this…okay?

@mmasnick the obfuscation this will generate will be hilarious "I'm off to join the friends of John"