Links to rival social media platforms banned on Twitter

Twitter gave no explanation for why the blacklist included those seven websites but not others such as Parler, TikTok or LinkedIn.

Rival social media platforms have been banned on Twitter (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Twitter users will no longer be able to link to certain rival social media websites, including what the company described on Sunday as “prohibited platforms” Facebook, Instagram and Mastodon.

It is the latest move by Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk to crack down on certain speech after he shut down a Twitter account last week that was tracking the flights of his private jet.