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Twitter bans links and username mentions relating to Facebook, Instagram and other rivals
While many people were turning to Twitter on Sunday to watch the World Cup finals unfold, the company introduced a new policy banning “free promotion” of competing social media websites. Moving forward, Twitter says it will remove links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Tribel, Post, Nostr and Donald Trump’s Truth Social from accounts whose “main purpose” is to promote content on those platforms. As a result of the policy, users can no longer use their Twitter bio to link to their other social media profiles, nor can they post tweets that invite their followers to follow them elsewhere. Additionally, the company is restricting the use of third-party aggregators like Linktree and Link.bio. Twitter warns that users who attempt to bypass the new policy using technical means like URL cloaking or less advanced methods will be found in violation of the policy.
We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
The company has carved out two exceptions to its new rule. “We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms,” the company said. “In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above.” Additionally, Twitter says it will continue to allow paid promotion for any of the platforms on its new prohibited list.
According to Twitter, accounts that violate its new policy may be temporarily locked if it is their first offense or “an isolated incident.” The company will also delete the offending tweets. “Any subsequent offenses will result in permanent suspension,” Twitter adds. The company will also temporarily lock accounts that add the offending links in their bios. Once again, Twitter warns multiple violations “may result in permanent suspension.”
Wild. @PaulG got suspended (for *sending folks to his website for a link to his mastadon). This is gonna get really, really interesting. PG is SV royalty. pic.twitter.com/kXTy4V2wIz
— AlexisOhanian7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) December 18, 2022
Twitter quickly began enforcing the policy shortly after it was announced. At 2:17PM ET, Paul Graham, the founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator and someone who came out in support of Musk’s takeover, said he was done with Twitter following the rule change and told his more than 1.5 million followers to find him on Mastodon. A few hours later, Twitter suspended Graham’s account.
The policy comes following another messy week at Twitter. On December 15th, a handful of notable journalists, including NBC’s Ben Collins and CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan, found they could not access their Twitter accounts. Most of the accounts had either talked about Jack Sweeney or his ElonJet account, which was banned for breaking the company’s recently announced policy against public location sharing. While Twitter later reinstated the accounts of those reporters, on Saturday it abruptly suspended the account of Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz. At the time of her suspension, Lorenz only had three posts to her name, one of which was a tweet to Musk asking him to comment on an upcoming story. Another one of her posts linked to her YouTube channel, but at that point Twitter’s policy against linking to competing platforms didn’t exist and nowhere in its new rule does it mention Google’s video service.
Update 5:48PM ET: Added mention of Paul Graham’s suspension.
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Samsung announces new GDDR6W memory, rivals HBM2
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In 2016, Samsung and other producers began manufacturing the successor to the fast (but flawed) high-bandwidth memory (HBM) modules. High-bandwidth memory 2 (HBM2) seemingly fixed all the issues with the previous generation, increasing capacity, speeds, and bandwidth. Unfortunately, HBM2 was never significantly successful in the desktop graphics card market.
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One of Apple’s rivals thinks we’ll see a foldable iPad in 2024
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One of Apple’s competitors in the smart device space apparently thinks a foldable iPad is on the way.
In a meeting with suppliers in October, Samsung reportedly shared that it believes Apple will join the foldable market in 2024, per The Elec. However, Samsung thinks Apple won’t debut with a foldable iPhone; instead it’ll be a foldable tablet, and the only tablet Apple makes is the iPad.
That backs up another recent report from CNBC, in which market firm CCS Insight also predicted a foldable iPad would launch in 2024.
Rumors of a foldable iPad have been floating around for at least three years. Back in 2019, IHS Markit analyst Jeff Lin predicted Apple could launch one “as soon as” 2020. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Whether that report was entirely wrong or Apple’s plans were shuffled by some combination of tech problems and COVID-19, we still haven’t seen a foldable device from the iPhone maker.
It’s not unreasonable to think Samsung knows something we don’t, though. That company has spent the last few years releasing and iterating on foldable devices like the Galaxy Z Flip and Galaxy Z Fold lines, to apparent success. Samsung predicts that foldable sales will make up half its total sales by 2025, and the latest Flip and Fold devices are supposedly doing quite well in Europe, via The Korea Times.
So maybe Apple will jump on the foldable train soon after all. Hopefully, by then, more apps will take advantage of bending screens.
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FIFA 23 Division Rivals rewards time and packs
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FIFA 23 Rivals rewards are awarded to those who go head-to-head with other players throughout the week. Playing another human being is the ultimate test of your ability in the football game, and whether your squad is up to scratch or not will be reflected in the rewards you earn come to the end of the Rivals cycle each week.
There are many ways to earn packs when you start your Ultimate Team journey; SBCs like Around The World, and Puzzle Master, will give you a decent injection of players initially, but modes like Squad Battles and Rivals are going to be the most consistent way of earning packs when the SBC content is exhausted. Here is the time you can claim your Rivals rewards and what you get for achieving each rank.
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