Twitter bans (and disallows) links to competitors

The Twitter saga continues. In the latest development, competitor Mastodon came into view.

Temporary ban on Mastodon

Twitter continues to make headlines. Some call the series of impulsive actions Musk’s masterful PR strategy, which has attracted many new users who want to experience it all. Others believe that he is destroying the platform in this way. In the last episode, Twitter blocked the accounts of competitor Mastodon and some of Twitter’s other competitors, which he released after a day and a half.

Naturally, this was yet another reason for the mixed group of Musk haters to call for a switch to Mastodon or one of the other competitors.

Bearing fell into the water

After that, Musk organized a poll on whether he should remain chairman or not. Perhaps he shouldn’t have done that, because he just fired half of all Twitter employees. And these former employees, who also have the necessary friends within the company, of course know everything about methods to create new Twitter users. Because within hours millions of votes were cast to remove the flamboyant Tesla director as Chief Twit.

Some suspect that the votes against have mainly been cast by various spam accounts, others that the majority of Twitter users are fed up with Musk’s antics. The truth will probably lie somewhere in the middle.

Anglo-Saxon Twitter Blue users only

Following this poll, Musk now wants to limit policy voting to paid Twitter Blue accounts. And maybe that’s not even a very crazy idea. The problem, of course, is that right now only the inhabitants of the five Anglo-Saxon countries USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK can get a Twitter Blu account.

Too bad, of course, because the world is bigger than just the Anglosphere. In this way, more than 90% of the total world population is excluded.

To be continued.