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No, it will not get Carmack banned, because he is not promoting his FB account. He links to a news worthy post.

I'm going through so much whiplash from the speed of Elon's transition from "it's wrong for Twitter to decide who's public/newsworthy enough for a checkmark" to "we'll allow crossposting if we decide it's a newsworthy piece of content."

I guess we all expected this, but it's just wild how quickly it happened.

It is very clearly against the rules as written. They cover “…linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter…”

> What is not a violation of this policy?

> We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.

This looks like a cross post from John Carmack's Facebook post, which is not in violation.

Reread the what is not prohibited section.

I think it would be classified as cross posting a newsworthy event.

Cross-posting can mean posting the same content on two platforms, not linking to content on another platform. Linking to Facebook would likely still earn him a ban.

Yes - that’s what I interpreted it as. From the policy, Cross-posting covers when you “…post content to Twitter from these platforms…” (emphasis mine).

Of course, I suspect the reality is that even people at Twitter don’t know if this falls under the policy or not.

I’m not sure why people here keep talking about the post being ‘newsworthy’ - that is not mentioned in the policy at all.

This is how I understand it, also.

e.g. "You may upload an image to Instagram and also upload that image to Twitter. However, you may not link to that image on Instagram."

The sheer quantity of posts on Twitter suggests to me that they will need to automatically ban folks for linking to some external sites. So I guess the question is would Twitter unban Carmack if they performed a manual review later?

"any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above" sounds like doublethink.

"Crossposting from prohibited sites is allowed."

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