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They can, just not in real time.

"Tweets that share someone else’s historical (not same-day) location information are also not prohibited by this policy."

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Yes. According to Twitter policy there must be "24 hours" delay since it's only way to follow "not same-day" rule. This will obviously makes Twitter useless for any news reporting.

Could you give an example from today's news which would be in violation of that rule?

Any social network post from celebrity X who mention they just seen celebrity Y on a private party of celebrity Z? According to Elon this information about him cannot be shared on Twitter.

PS: I'm not exactly into US celebrities, but I'm very much into stalking Putin and his cronies using OSINT reporting on Twitter. Now anyone who publicly share their movements can be banned.

Sounds great. Maybe this will end the leeches that are paparazzis.

Police shootings.

This Tweet from a few days ago about a former NFL coach visiting Stanford would seem to violate it;

https://twitter.com/ByPatForde/status/1600993384851652608

Maybe not a technical violation since it said "earlier today" -- but a random student tweeting the same right after seeing him on campus would get the account suspended?

A fan saying "OMG, just saw Kanye at the Whole Foods in El Segundo" would be worthy of suspension?

News stories about various public officials secret trips for negotiations would be worthy of suspension?

Doesn't seem very "free speechey" to me.

Or just posting that you ran into your good friend Bob this morning and roughly where would presumptively be in violation, Twitter would have no way of knowing whether Bob consented for that information to be published.

Before coalition talks in Germany there are frequently news about politicians visiting this party headquarter or that party headquarter, practically always in real time. All of those are usually not public events. There are no press conferences, nobody in the press is told about those visits (except if it leaks).

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