If you are unable to post Signal.me links on X right now, you’re not alone. As Disruptionist’s Matt Binder reports, X is currently blocking all links to Signal.me, a domain used by the Signal messaging app to let its users send and receive encrypted messages securely.
While trying to post a signal.me link through DM on X, PCMag received an error message that read: “Message not sent, Sending Direct Message filed.”
When Binder tried to use the link in a public post, the error message read: “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful.” The link isn’t working on bios, either.
However, the restriction is selective. X is only disallowing “signal.” me” links, while “signal.org” links remain accessible.
(Credit: PCMag)
X has yet to comment on the issue. If the blocking is intentional, though, this wouldn’t be the first time X has done it for an external app.
In late 2022, shortly after Elon Musk took over Twitter, the site announced that it would ban links to rival social networks. “We will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter,” it said at the time, pledging to “remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.”
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After some blowback, that was was quietly reversed. But a few months later, Twitter restricted tweets containing links to newsletter platform Substack. More recently, Musk indirectly confirmed that X deprioritizes posts with links.
Signal, however, isn’t a direct competitor. It’s a private messaging app often used by journalists to have secure conversations with sources. More recently, it has been used by federal workers looking to blow the whistle on the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), The Verge notes.
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