I posted a link to my private channel on long-form. Telegram allows you to label invite links and identify the source of your subscribers joining in from specific metrics.
I have been posting a similar link on Twitter, and it appears that t.me links are actively downplayed (even though the link is pinned).
Does Twitter dislike other social media platforms?
To be fair. Telegram has done an awful job mitigating spam and scams. It does not look like they do much of any thing. I am an admin for a local Telegram group and loosely have tracked the insane amount of spam and scammer accounts that join and get reported. It’s amazing how many never get shut down.<p>It’s also amazing how many have such obvious tells in their descriptions and their profile pics. For example, descriptions that are always similar saying looking for a good time or listing prices, linking to telegram channels listing prices for “services” or drugs or guns. Profile pics of porn stars or models, or otherwise taken from social media and now on telegram under a completely different name. The usernames and names of accounts commonly follow patterns as well. Don’t forget crypto shilling and scams.<p>I get not being happy with Twitter in general, but Telegram is purposefully not doing anything to mitigate their spam and scam problems.
IF they do it I guess it's scam mitigation we had to implement it in on a big public discord because 90% of telegram links are botspam or scammers same goes for link shorteners.
Yes have noticed similar things. It seems Twitter has been taking a lot of inspiration from Instagram for engagement and they do upvote stuff to people's feeds based on virality. Similarly there's stuff which is not downvoted by engagement algorithm as much as disappear or shadow banned.
Twitter blocks/restricts most of the links associated with Telegram (t.me , telegra.ph (their blogging platform) , telegram.me , etc).<p>Even if you manage to post the link by hiding it behind a link shortener, they show a warning to every person who clicks the link, which says the link maybe be unsafe (<a href="https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https://bit.ly/3585ROY" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...</a>).
Any longform content I write at telegra.ph gets the URL stripped from my tweet, while the same content at graph.com (an alias) doesn't. So, yes, I think Twitter does censor Telegram links.
In case you are curious about the longform channel, I created the QR code here:
<a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/TZiOCwk" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/TZiOCwk</a> That should help anyone to click it and make it work by scanning.
I believe this is why I think they have noticed that Telegram is trying to get more traffic via Twitter, and thus the reason they're trying to suppress the exposure of TG links.
> Does Twitter dislike other social media platforms?<p>'Private platform' doing 'private platform things' (Censorship, banning, moderation, shadow-banning, perma-ban, removing and flagging tweets). Why should we care anyway?<p>This is all expected of a private platform.