More newsletters coming soon, because Twitter is insane now.

It's all going up in flames

The banning of journalists, the weird new rules, the return or Nazis, the petulant bullshit from the owner, etc... everything is going truly off the rails on Twitter dot com. I can’t imagine I will be able to maintain a presence on the platform much longer.

The latest development, that Twitter is going to stop allowing people to link off the platform, is truly insane.

Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social @Chronotope

lol are you fking kidding me? https://t.co/HVwKqvSSxf

Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social @Chronotope

hahahahahahahaha WTF "Additionally, we allow paid advertisement/promotion for any of the prohibited social media platforms."

Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social @Chronotope

This has got to be the most pitiful thing I've ever seen a company do. What happened to the Marketplace of Ideas Eln? What happened to all that libertarian free market philosophy?

Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social @Chronotope

Gonna try promoting a tweet that's nothing but links to other platforms, let's see if I get banned or not.

Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social @Chronotope

They said they allow you to pay to promote links to other platform, but considering how it was immediately reject from promotion it seems that automation is being used to make that line a... uhhh... total lie. Turns out you *can't* use paid ads or promotion for those platforms.

Oh boy. Well, before I get banned or they start blocking links to Substack I’m going to come back to doing more writing here (or port my email list over to a different service, we’ll see), so sign on up here if you want to continue to talk about media, ad tech, technology and fkn bullshitters like we did on Twitter.