Twitter will ban links to other social media services and suspend accounts that try to direct Twitter users to alternative platforms.The CEO of the social media platform posted a poll Sunday, saying, "I will abide by the results of this poll."This comes the company announced Sunday that Twitter will ban links to other social media services and suspend accounts that try to direct Twitter users to alternative platforms in an apparent attempt to stem user defections to competitors.
Despite the bans, Twitter says it will still "allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms."Notably absent from the list is TikTok, one of the internet's fastest-growing social media platforms whose links to China have sparked national security concerns among US policymakers.
Now, that practice has been formalized into official Twitter policy, a move that could further raise eyebrows among Twitter's regulators.