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LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) will start banning cryptocurrency advertising from Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown that seeks to avoid giving publicity to potential fraud or large investor losses.

The prohibition will cover advertising of initial coin offerings (ICOs) - crowdfunding used to raise cash by creating new coins - as well as token sales, the San Francisco-based firm told Reuters on Monday.

The new policy, which will be rolled out over the next 30 days, will also ban ads by cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency wallet services, unless they are public companies listed on certain major stock markets.

For Japan, these will be limited to crypto exchanges regulated by its national financial regulator, Twitter said.

However, there are communities in social media where you can find information about the cryptos or representatives of projects. I suppose that reducing advertising is needed for the safety of Twitter developers.

Prohibited paid advertising on Twitter. Individuals were not forbidden to retweeted and write messages about the crypto currency. Therefore for us with you, nothing has changed.

I think it's a good move by twitter following the example of facebook. We really don't need the noobs lured in by paided ads to disrupt the market order by throwing their money blindly to scam ICOs. Cryptos can do better without these people as it's still immature itself.

I don't think that something terrible has happened. They have already done it in Facebook and Google, but we don't see any affect

this is good

bye bye shitty scam icos

the twitter ceo is huge supporter of REAL crypto though and is quite a large btc investor.

Facebook yet retweets are not removed like,hopefully with the tweeter so it will be,and if you will remove how and where to participate in the bounty?Perhaps when the crypt is legalized and the laws of the social network are passed,the punishment for them will be abolished.

the one who does not know. thinks that all advertising is blocked !!!
but this news is very useful for all of us !!!

It was unavoidable after Facebook and google.

They really need to do it because majority of ICO are fraud and only few ICO have a real project and a credible team behind it. It is also good if there is a regulation that will be imposed so that it will minimize the potential scam and only real project will get a fund that needed.

Latest correction in the crypto currency caused by the news form twitter if crypto related advertisement will be banned. But as long as everyone can still posted about crypto in their timeline and that will be fine.
In fact facebook ban doesn't give a lot of impact at all. But if the project that related to the advertisement will be working for the crypto and it may give a huge impact to the cryptocurrency. But the more countries are interested to become the next ico-friendly countries.

Bad news, but I am not surprised, it was said earlier when google made announcement on banning of cryto ads.

in the long run, the ecosystem will benefit from these regulations, as new investors will research and learn more about the projects they are investing.

I don't think that it affects a lot in cryptocurrency industry even though Twitter is one of the biggest social media platform used for advertising . Maybe we should look on the other side , Twitter made that decision to prevent and minimize the growing problems of fraud in cryptocurrency industry. We should be thankful about that but we all know there are some consequences coming.

if its to prevent fraud, then great! this is a good stop for cryptocurrency. It encourages people to actually research the ICOs rather than blindly clicking on an ad. The markets should really go the other way in response to this...

I think they only ban advertisements and sponsors for ICO projects, but do not ban ICO articles that bounty hunters often write.

Bad news again...

I am just wondering what are ico developers going to do after all these bans to promote their coins. It is becoming harder and harder to promote coins then. I wish they wouldn't do this, even laws were ok with most projects.

I was kind of excited when the rumours became real since I'm a bounty hunter because I believe our rewards will definitely see an increase now or later

news like this is often misunderstood by some users, especially newcomers. it does not affect the running of a project, but they are too serious and panic to understand it.

It will probably reduce scam ico's because some ico now are use social media to scam and steal money from investors so Its kind interesting if legit ico's will pay for their project and see that cyrpto currencies may not use for scams investors.

The more prohibitions on bitcoin and cryptocurrency ads but as the community continues to grow it will make more and more curious people, I think ad bans on twitter will not be so important because the important thing is there is no prohibition to make tweets or retweets from ICO or cryptocurrency articles.

Twitter is becoming more and more biased with all that censorship. Hopefully, there will be a mass exodus to more uncensored and independent resources like gab.ai some day.

Its following facebook and google decisions, it might help anyway in choosing ICO. For once they banned we can research really what will be much better campaign since twitter been used by many to make some hypes in the market that will soon just lead into a useless coin.

sometimes the campaign its self is too much. Maybe at least the campaign only contains 2 times a week so it is not much trash in Social Media.

This gives us confidence that there will be less and less fraudulent ICO projects...

yes I agree with you. serios projects do not need such type of promotion as been banned. And it makes harder for scammers to take money from noobs.

Due to the scam coins, they may be right to be afraid of publishing such deceiving ads but anyway, this news (including google,facebook etc.) affects the prices badly more than it should. The ads are banned,so?  Are all the coins scam from now on?

Well, this is a bad news for us. But it was a contradiction with JACK statement a few weeks ago. He said that "Bitcoin Will Become World’s ‘Single Currency’ Within A Decade" https://cointelegraph.com/news/twitter-ceo-says-bitcoin-will-become-worlds-single-currency-within-a-decad

I thought with that statement he will support all crypto and ICO activity, but it's a shame that the fact today, Twitter will ban crypto ads.

Yes I read this news so,
It was announced on Monday that Twitter will start banning advertise Cryptocurrensy ads. joining other giants techs such as google and facebook in a wider crackdown that aids to protect investors from fraud.

This new policy from twitter will forbid advertisement of Initial Coin Offering (ICOs) and tokens sales globally. And it also said that ICOs has potential risks for users. Its all aim to ensuring the safety of twitter community, through adding a new policy for Twitter Ads relating to Cryptocurrency.

They have already done it in Facebook and Google, but we don't see any affect I don't think that something terrible has happened.

I think that they will be more conferences. Perhaps they will promote through well-known personalities, well-known bloggers, media personalities in videohosting.

its for our own good, social media is also used to advertise even scam ICO to scam their investors. twitter did a good move to avoid those illegal things. even if they ban advertising crypto currency, that doesnt count as bad image on crypto.

Well people who want to invest in crypto currency will invest even if it is not advertised on social media. It could be a good thing

This isn't new and it is not bad either. It is obvious that due to the scams that are all over the place, it is necessary for the public to be enlightened about Crypto. Till that is done, the ads on ICOs need to be regulated on the Social media platforms to avoid scams.

I'm not worried about it, it's probably because too many ico appear and end up scam.
I'm afraid if it affects the fall in Bitcoin prices.

These two years are too much ico, but not like the previous year.

Many experts associate the prohibitions of crypto advertising on Facebook, Google and Twitter with the fall of bitcoin and Ethereum rates. I think there is logic in this statement. I would not say that these prohibitions have a positive impact on the development of crypto.

facebook, google banned crytocurrency ads, now twitter did the same thing. it seems that crytocurrencies isnt supported and people are worried about the future of this market, so they sell their coins, and the market is down..i believe, after all, the market will go up again

While the ban has caused a decline in purchasing activities,  it's important that fake stuffs are kicked out of users view. It's like a big dad handling his children.

We need sanity in cryptoverse but it's a pity that centralized institutions are the ones giving us this sanitization.

I'm not angry to Twitter, Facebook and Google. Fraudsters are using these platforms.
These companies only protect customers.

Due to the scam coins, they may be right to be afraid of publishing such deceiving ads but anyway, this news (including google,facebook etc.) affects the prices badly more than it should. The ads are banned,so?  Are all the coins scam from now on?

For me, I don't think it would be a big problem if the twitter doesn't advertising cryptocurrency now. Yes, we are worried because there's a new loss for us. But we know that there are many social media accounts that can continue to advertising like the facebook and the youtube account. Also there are many user of it so i think it would be not a big problem

If this is simply information then this topic has been debated many times over already. If this is a query and concern, then it absolutely does not matter, seeing that twitter has never let its users down, and nor have facebook and google. Have faith, and be happy they are looking out for you!

Makes complete sense why they decided to do this. I feel that the bans by other social media websites like Facebook etc motivated them to take this step. Such bans will obviously affect the price in a small way. This is actually a good thing since the scammers and cheaters won't be able to advertise their coins in an easy manner anymore which would most likely demotivate them. This would help us differentiate between the legit and scam coins much more easily which is why I feel that this is a great step from their side. If you think about it, this move is helping the market in the long run.

It's no problem for the hunters they can keep posting about crypto..As we know today google and facebook banned paid crypto ads twitter also join that..But it has not give a big impact..I think many ICO will still needs bounty hunter for promoted their ICO because they can't paid crypto ads again..

That's sad for twitter users because they can earn money and can support their financial needs. It's good for everyone because they can lessen all the scams bounties here. Fake advertisements will be banned and doubtful projects will be gone.

I still see ads crypto in some social media even twitter. I'm actually confused this policy so applied or not? If yes maybe there will be a separate course for impact value of crypto. However, the reason for the existence of this policy definitely has its own goals and purpose for the sake of safety and comfort.

The twitter want to get peoples heart by banning the ads to prevent more fraudulent for the sake of peoples.
but there are many ways to promote or advertise ICO, we don't 100% depends on social media.

It's high time we start listed our ICOs on official Regulatory authority, if this is done their won't be any issue of banned ads on FB and TW.
Anyways, this has not been officially stated, let's keep hoping for the best. 

Twitter is for promotion. If any coin want to launch its ICO then it can create separate community on twitter and it will start bounty program on twitter as well.

I dont see any badnews from that, i mean crypto are for people who make researches before joining them, whether in trading or long term investment, advertisements are important but its not necessary i think, especially in crypto.

Heard about it and I think it's bad because cryptocurrencies is the future that should be everywhere.Although it is useless and unprofitable projects is really annoying

They did the same like other IT giants, so noffing new, they can ban the advertise, but they cant ban the idea, i am curiuous, their business is based on the selling advertise, so they dont need it lol? Or the general reason we dont know really?

Yeah they did it, but they don't banning users who is participate into bounties and doing retweets for that, i think so it's not so bad.

Be it twitter, facebook, or google, i don't think it will affect crypto industry in any way that will have consequences.

Good ICOs will still survive and who cares about the scammy ones.

This news doesn't surprise me in any way. And also I don't think that this will greatly affect the dissemination of information in the cryptocommunity. Well, facebook banned advertising and what? Nothing significant has happened, the same with Google. I don't worry about this.

i think this news has nothing strange anymore, google and facebook have already done that before, so it will be twitter one day. But i don't feel sorry but that may bring a good future for cryptocurrencies, now only good ICOs can be survive cand only best quality project can be chosen from investors, so yes banning cryptos can also be a good method for really good ICOs.

By the way I've just seen ICO ads in google adwords. So maybe we should  less worry over every little thing?

The rules really got tougher on Twitter. I advertised several different ISO and blocked me without the possibility of recovery. And a lot of people who participate in the bounty also block, although this is not paid advertising.

very unfortunate if twitter prohibits crypto ads, but if there is no ban, maybe a lot of advertising revenue for twitter. but we can not avoid if twitter forbid it, maybe just because of the crypto ads, it interfere with the activity of twitter users. hopefully there is a way out for the world of crypto.

My account is also blocked! There were 3100 followers. Yours is not restored? Did you contact support?

I doubt anything big will come out of this. After all, nothing major came out of the FB ban. And the same goes for the Google ban probably.

I can see this affecting bounties in a positive way for people who participate in the signature or facebook/telegram ones.  Now that Twitter has banned active ICO bounty-hunting users I think we'll start seeing bounties being handled differently or with a slightly larger split for the other media types.

Yes, I write in support. They write that I'm was delete for multiple violations of twitter rules. I am create a new account. All my bounty Campaning they were wasted, they were gone.

A growing number of internet companies are banning cryptocurrency advertising, fearing reputational damage if their users are duped or left penniless, even as regulators struggle to get to grips with the fast-emerging industry. Once restricted to small online chatrooms for early bitcoin backers, cryptocurrencies have since exploded in popularity and the industry has grown rapidly. Considering the regulators for their lose control of data privacy, they probably would not ban advertising from cryptos. And for that, i think we should accept it.

This is a bad thing.Although annoying is really annoying because most of the advertising projects it is a Scam

then we will make another community) they cannot stop progress. anyway, after those rules appear bounty hunters should start thinking again about having atother sourse of money.

This does not affect the work of cryptocurrencies so I think that this is the most useless action in fact and it would be better not to

This banned official advertising in Twitter. In my personal accounts, everything remains the same. You can advertise projects. Therefore for us with you nothing has changed much. If you do not take into account the frequent bans of Twitter accounts.

 It's one of the bad news i read.. But we have to accept the fact if ever it will happen someday. Just get another options if ever they going to banned the twitter in advertising crypto currency.

Twitter’s new policies are designed to discourage opportunities for fraud and deception. They have a point, most of the current ads are a scam and are making 0% positive effects in the Blockchain community. Anyway, this will just help to create more decentralized solutions to the world. The Twitter ban doesn't matter much I think, because most people inside crypto find what they need without ads on Twitter. I think it's positive, it's forcing people to find information elsewhere instead of being pulled into different scams that are advertising regarding there ICO's.

Why is that? For them it seems like a good thing, they won't be associated with scam projects any more.

That’s if the other social media platforms don’t choose to ban ICO ads as well. This is goig to affect ICOs because their range is going to lessen since they won’t be able to reach twitter. It’s not the end of the world for them however since there are many other ways for them to advertise other than through twitter. I imagine that twitter has done this out of the concern of their users and to prevent any other from getting scammed.

Its positive thing, a good projects doesn't need a big advertisement, people are spreading news about them themselves. All that hell lot of advertisements were needed by scammers who can't sold their projects in other way

There are many fake ICOs for fraud in Twitter. Twitter only wants to protect users.
I am not angry with Twitter because when it comes time they will remove this ban.

This is not a good news for all of us. Why there are people trying to do some bad habits to earn. Its a widely developmwnt for twitter to get involved with this issue. Let just be wiser enough to those who are fake twitter campaigns.

Ye and not only twitter but other social media banned crypto, but i still see in my feed some icos and crypto spam, hope it will end someday.

very far indeed.I think it's to some extent will reduce the number of investors and participants in the bounty I am absolutely sure of

Twitter made that decision to prevent and minimize the growing problems of fraud in cryptocurrency industry, t makes harder for scammers to take money from noobs.

Twitter have banned advertising of crypto and ico project, they have allow the other social media like facebook social media and instagram have banned advertising of crypto befor. It will be the hard situation for the dev of ico and the community of bitcoin, it will be have great effect for the bitcoin price it self, where the crypto and bitcoin have low price becuase this effect of banned the advertising of crypto by twitter inc. Will be some day the twitter inc will be removed banned the crypto.

As far as i know, it is only the advertisement regarding cryptocurrency ttht they are banning but not all crytoccurrency content. You can still post tweet or retweet regarding cryptocurrency.

I believe there's something to it… All solid projects can survive with no Google/Twitter ads… Maybe it will help eliminate shady backers/attract more serious investors?... I'm thinking the impact of this ban has been non-existent so far…

I do not understand why social networks took such a position. It seems to me that they must support the latest technology and blockchain, rather than hinder it. I'm sad.

My account works but I think I'm actively involved in bounty companies, but I think it will affect everyone. It's getting harder in the crypto industry.

Whatever, but atleast there are some community on forums, also here, where you can find information about projects, if you're interested in some ICO.

In my opinion thats good move by facebook and twitter too. We don't need newbies lured in by paided ads to disrupt the market orders by no reason

true, even though that's a fairly complex thing does not mean to be an obstacle for others to review, because otherwise it will lose the stalls to promote and benefit from a certain industrial projects.

My twitter profile is officially dead! 8) 2 weeks ago I saw a message on my twitter page, "your account is suspended". I wrote an appeal e-mail and a day later received a verdict that my account will not be recovered, the reasons wasn't called. I participated in a maximum of 2-3 twitter campaigns and all, so,that is strange, I cannot be called a spammer.  ;D I blame hashtag #ICO

I think so too, it's a little stupid and in my opinion illegally to restrict freedom of speech but ultimately will see

Ask me what the website address you get information about the ban of Twitter advertising? Is there any accurate information? If you want to provide information to everyone, there is a need to avoid confusion for everyone, causing the exchange rate of the market to fall due to such fake information. Be a responsible person with the knowledge shared with the community, avoid confusion, fear for the community.

it is worth nothing for cryptocurrency community. The fact that has taken place, ICO needs no advertising from social media or google. The most effective promotion is via bounty campaign. It is very efective. With thousand members of social media accounts that are actively retweet or sharers ICOs will reach the audience. Not to worry about ad banning from social media. They will regret because most busines are now cryptocurrency.

For long-term run ecosystems will have benefit from that regulations that will come to us in July-June this year, so we must prepare for that.

I think that here won't be anything terrible or really scaring. They have already done it on google and fb, but without any affects      

It's good!! And believe me, nothing terrible has happened! I even think this is a plus for us all!

I believe there's something to it… All solid projects can survive with no Google/Twitter ads… Maybe it will help eliminate shady backers/attract more serious investors?... I'm thinking the impact of this ban has been non-existent so far…

I believe it's a good thing. The good projects don't need to advertise - it's mostly the scammy projects that need to do that. You don't see IPOs or startup fundraising advertising on twitter, that would be ridiculous

Following the same step of Facebook and Google, now Twitter is ready to forbid the crypto ads in its platform. 2 weeks later twitter will start to enact, and just like what i read there's exception. The actions must be doing after very much complaint about spam and crypto ads that cheating.


https://www.sundul.com/berita-altcoin/twitter-mempersiapkan-larangan-iklan-crypto/

So campaign managers should adjust and not ask us to put hashtags like #ICO, #BTC, #ETH, #cryptocurrency. I know, it will reduce the effectiveness of the campaign, but is a lesser evil than having all participating accounts banned. I will stay away from twitter bounties requiring to put those ## to count posts. I had my account suspended as a first warning and don't want to start with the fresh account with so many limitations.

paid advertising on Twitter has been prohibited. Users are not restricted from posts and retweets about cryptocurrency and ICOs.

HA! What a company, am I right? They should take care of the donation tweets maybe? Why are they doing this? It's the number one social platform for advertising… it is going to be much tougher for all the new ICOs. Stupid and short-sighted decision.

It's a very difficult situation right now, as I have heard that a lot of akane booths have started, those who continue advertising this market, therefore, need to be very careful about this.

I think this is the decision of each of the social networks.If they so want then let, and I do not think that it will have a very strong impact on the value of the currency or on the ICO

After two weeks nothing is happening, I am in one Twitter campaign and I still make posts about cryptocurrencies, I share some posts from airdrops, I share other people crypto twits, and everything is still fine. I wonder what was that from twitter now when two weeks passed and nothing happened, maybe that was just a bad joke, or someone wanted to hurt crypto with bad rumors. What ever it was I think it was wrong, but we will see what will happen in next period, maybe they are preparing something.

I agree that each social network decides on their own what kind of advertising it to do and spread, but I still think that it can affect the ICO negatively

The legit ico will also be affected. I hope they will still allow legit and regulated ICO ads.

You're right but for the really good projects that won't change anything - people know about it and will invest in it even without any Twitter or FB advertisement

I think it's bad and that the administration of Twitter will eventually cancel it completely useless innovation

Bad news for bounty hunters but it's good for prevent to spread scam ico's.

I think twitter is really helpful for getting news on quality project; on the other hand there are always will be fraud in social media. This is a good step to prevent a potential fraud. I hope that, it will be good for promising project and investors.

With the Facebook and twitter bans on digital currency ICO, more and more voices on bitcoin regulation may be an important reason for the recent decline in the market. People are afraid to enter the market at this time, and the volume of bitcoin turnover in the recent exchange is 20% in December last year. Maybe it's going to last a long time.

Blocking paid advertising on twitter.. huh. It still dont mean you can't participate in bounties, so for us it's not so bad. Maybe even better.

the news about the ban on cryptocurrency ads in mediasocial fb and twiter which has the purpose of preventing fraud has no effect on the cryptocurrency community because I think the ban on advertising will not be so important to them, because the most important thing is there is no prohibition to make a tweet or retweet from ico or cryptocurrency article

it is good for bounty hunters .
bcoz we can do retweets or tweet , no ban on individuals .

rather than paying money to twitter or advertising agency , projects can pay to bounty hunters ..
also they can pay in tokens which is another benefit ..

Nothing new, they previously banned advertising also on Facebook and Google. I think this is okay, because advertising crypto and ICO can be fraudsters deceiving users. In recent months, Twitter has sharply increased the number of crypto-crooks that not only create fake accounts, but also steal access to official pages in order to lure users of their tokens, so the leadership of Twitter had to go to the extreme.

Heard of this since like a month ago but I thought that the way it will be handled will be different but the joy there is that one can still retweet and tweet about crypto related, knowing this bring a little relieve because I thought this would not be allowed also.

Yes, twitter has banned cryptocurrencies and ICOs ads. And I think that a wise decision. The social media platforms have wide reach to people. So the fraudsters were using them to advertise their scam projects which caused huge losses to many people. The genuine startups, on the hand do not need such platforms for their marketing purposes, I guess.

If Twitter has really banned cryptocurrencies then it is one more blow on the prices. It is really difficult to grow quickly when many social media services are against you. We see it today. Situation will be solved of course, but need time.

they banned advertising of cryptocurrencies specifically ICOs which are scamming people and they did that a couple of weeks ago. in other words this news is already too old that you bumped, any effect that it may have had on the price has already been priced in.

also in the long run this may affect ICOs because they may find less people to scam in the future.

We can't blame social networking sites by banning cryptocurrency especially the ads because many of their users or members are victimized by the scam. Cryptocurrencies are not the scam but those abusive people using crypto to scam other users are the problem.

We cannot blame the social media, because many of the scammers use it to scam people. They use it to abuse people. But still I thanks the social media because I still use it to tweet and post for my campaign  :D

some of my friends told me that they get banned in twitter posting or retweeted ICO with hashtags #crypto #cryptocurrency. but base on my experience rightnow in twetter if you dont put hashtag #cypto #cryptocurrency they will not banned your account. we will just be careful on our account when retweeting and posting some articles.

It is normal because social media is used by many peoples, and can influence peoples into good or bad.
Because many icos are scam, they decide to prevent scam and frauds by banning the ads. a good move.

Twitter is the pioneer of the virtual environment. It would be right to support, not to forbid. I hope that this mistake will come back as soon as possible and will realize the mistake you made.

This is the worst news for cryptocurrency related advertisers, in future maybe build top advertising platform like google with blockchain technology. Then We will not need google, facebook, and twitter advertising platforms.

Almost a month passed, anybody was blocked for advertising crypto-currency projects?

that's too bad.I think that this may have a negative impact on the number of investors in projects because Twitter is a huge platform

I don't think it's that critical.there are a lot of other social networks more widespread than Twitter in which there are more potential investors

here is if finally banned telegrams and all the resources associated with cryptocurrency in the telegram it really will be a disaster.Twitter is not so important after all

I do not understand the news like this, because I have often heard it. whether this is a positive or a negative thing, it depends on how you think. Twitter is a huge social media, and I hope it does not make us panic. Currently the price of coins again increased, hopefully this news does not affect it, until the price fell again.

yesterday facebook, twitter is now increasingly difficult for us to promote crypto currency but still the spirit to introduce to the world