The most recent change made by Twitter since Elon Musk took over the firm was the announcement on Sunday that it would prohibit accounts that promote competing social media platforms on Twitter.
However, Elon Musk, the unpredictable owner of the website, appeared to reverse course on the new rule just hours later.
Since Musk took over the firm in October, he has made a number of contentious changes, the most recent of which was the abrupt change in the rules.
As a result of these changes, an increasing number of users are now urging their followers to view their postings on other websites.
The crazy billionaire even asked Twitter users to decide if he should remain CEO.
“Should I step down as head of Twitter?” he tweeted, asking the site’s users to click yes or no.
“I will abide by the results of this poll,” he added, with the vote open until the early hours of Monday.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
Twitter had announced that the company would “no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms.”
“At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL,” the company explained in a statement.
Users would thus be barred, for example, from posting “Follow me @username on Instagram,” Twitter said.
Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, tweeted the word “Why” in response to the new rule.
Musk tweeted that the policy would be limited to “suspending accounts only when that account’s *primary* purpose is the promotion of competitors” rather than taking into account specific tweets after a number of well-known accounts, including tech investor Paul Graham, were suspended as a result of the new rule.
He later said: “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”
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