Twitter to Ban Accounts That Promote Rival Social Media

The most recent shift by the company is banning accounts that promote other social media platforms.

The accounts would be removed for the purpose of promoting other social platforms. The company said it would take action against users that violated the policy.

Users may no longer be able to link to their own accounts on other platforms because of the decision. Mr. Musk said that sharing links is fine.

The move, the latest change in an already chaotic month at the company, could affect giant social media platforms, including Facebook andInstagram, as well as start-ups like Mastodon and Post, and the right-wing site that former President Donald J. Trump helped found. The new policy will affect two other social networks.

The account of Mastodon was suspended last week after the site promoted the work of a journalist who had been banned from the social networking site.

Sharing content on other social platforms can bring more distribution to posts and a more open internet, with social networks allowing links to other platforms.

The policy change on Sunday is part of a larger pattern in which Mr. Musk has removed Dissenters from his platform. Ryan Mac of The New York Times and Drew Harwell of The Washington Post were suspended last week. Most of them have been restored.

The accounts that tracked the planes of high-profile people, government agencies and billionaires were suspended.