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 mastadon's own accounts were unexpecdly banned

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When attempting to tweet mastadon links, this resulted in the error message starting"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 mastadon social and 10 other domains

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

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Twitter and mastadon haven't responded to this yet

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

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