Twitter Not Allowing To Post Links To Mastodon

Twitter Seems To Ban Posting Links Of Its Competitor

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As per the reports, Twitter appears to be blocking tweets containing links to the competing social media platform Mastodon.

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The ban came out on Thursday on the platform after the journalists and Mastodon's own accounts were unexpectedly banned.

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When attempting to tweet Mastodon links, this resulted in the error message stating “This link has been identified as potentially harmful by Twitter or our partners.”

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Twitter is currently blocking links to their original server mastodon.social and 10 other domains.

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Mastodon's Twitter account was suspended and the reason is still not known.

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Twitter and Mastodon haven’t responded to this yet.

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Twitter has also rolled out a new policy that prohibits people from sharing other people's locations.

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