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Imagine if Meta bans all Twitter or Youtube links in your IG or FB posts?


Meta (FB) doesn't ban links to blogs or other social media but heavily throttles (lock it) it until you start paying for it. Here is the comic that explains it better https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people Also, links are not clickable on Insta. Similarly, WhatsApp also block if URLs/images/vidoes if shared too many times (at least in India, there is some rule or something like that for Fake news, I forgot the details but they use AI and mods to throttle WhatsApp for sure )


I thought Instagram doesn't allow any links at all in posts.


This is correct, but you can still post any URL in your Insta posts, it just won't be clickable. Twitters rules expand that to the text itself, as well as "obfuscation". For example, posting "instagram dot com/username" is not allowed on Twitter.




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