Twitter Marks Substack Links As Unsafe

On Thursday, Twitter blocked people using Substack from embedding tweets in their stories. Then early Friday morning, Twitter Substack containing links blocked interaction on tweets.

Then users post these tweets. couldn’t like or retweet, but they were able to retweet the quote. Then on Friday morning, Twitter also applied these restrictions to tweets from the official Substack account.

Even Matt Taibi, the journalist who wrote the Twitter Files, complains about it.

CEO Elon Musk hasn’t tweeted anything about Substack recently, and when asked for his comment, Twitter’s press email automatically responded, as it has done since mid-March. He replied with the poop emoji.

Substack’s Notes feature adds very Twitter-like elements to the newsletter platform. A journalist specially chosen by Musk to turn the Twitter Files into news. Matt Taibbiby an unspecified party on Friday “Twitter is uncomfortable with the new Substack Notes feature and sees it as a hostile competitor” said it was said.

Also to himself “given the option to post my articles on Substack instead of Twitter” also stated. So Taibi stated that he will no longer use Twitter.

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In December, Musk “relentless advertising of competitors” described it as a policy violation and posted to Instagram, Mastodon, Facebook, and others. blocked link sharing. However, these restrictions were later lifted.

Now that he feels Substack is trying to compete with Twitter, he may have decided to bring it back, but for now, let’s just say that you can at least tweet the Substack link. Anyone trying to follow it will just have to click on the alert to get to the content.