87% of users say 'NO' to 'Does Twitter need to set a new policy to prohibit advertising of other SNS?'

Regarding the fact that the policy prohibiting the promotion of other SNS on Twitter was withdrawn immediately after the announcement, Twitter Safety, which is in charge of Twitter's security, said on Twitter, ``Existing accounts whose main purpose is to promote other social media platforms. Should there be a policy prohibiting the creation or use of As a result, 87% of the users who answered the questionnaire chose 'NO'.

Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) December 19, 2022

Twitter Support announced on December 19, 2022, 'We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.' We are aware that our users are also active on other social networks, but we will no longer allow the promotion of certain social networks on Twitter for free.” has announced changes to its policy prohibiting the promotion of other social platforms on Twitter.

Twitter deletes its own account advertising tweets on Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, Post and revise the policy so that Aka BAN can be done, but immediately withdraw-GIGAZINE

However, this announcement received a lot of backlash from users, saying, ``Isn't it okay to share links casually?'' and ``Prohibiting link sharing on other SNSs is against the Antimonopoly Act.'' In response to a question from a user, Elon Musk said, ``We will adjust the policy to suspend the account only if the ``main'' purpose of the account is to advertise a competitor.Essentially spam It's the same as the prohibition rule.'

Policy will be adjusted to suspending accounts only when that account's *primary* purpose is promotion of competitors, which essentially falls under the no spam rule

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022

And the Twitter Support tweet announcing this policy and the page describing the new policy have been removed. However, at the time of writing the article, Twitter has not officially announced the withdrawal of the policy.

UPDATE: The tweets by @TwitterSupport this morning, announcing a new policy banning linking to competing websites, have been deleted.

The policy itself was deleted from Twitter's website.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 19, 2022

Mask CEO has so far stated that ``the voice of the people is the voice of God'' and has shown a stance of deciding important matters on Twitter through questionnaires, and once again entrusts the decision-making power to the user's will regarding the pros and cons of this policy. shape.