{"id":39026,"date":"2023-04-10T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39026"},"modified":"2023-04-24T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T18:38:14","slug":"twitter-restricts-substack-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/10\/twitter-restricts-substack-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Restricts Substack Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timothy B. Lee<\/a> (Hacker<\/a> News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to have started less than 48 hours after the popular newsletter platform announced a new product called Notes<\/a> that will compete directly with Twitter.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

In the last 24 hours, Twitter also appears to have started blocking tweet-embedding<\/a> in Substack posts.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

I emailed Twitter’s official press email address, press@twitter.com, for comment. Twitter automatically replies to all emails at that account with the message “💩.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Elon Musk<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Substack links were never blocked.[…]<\/li> \n
  2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.<\/li>\n
  3. Turns out Matt [Taibbi] is\/was an employee of Substack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    As far as I can tell, (1) and (3) are false<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

    See also: The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

    GiftedHorse<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    Twitter is now censoring competitors by outright lying and placing false “this is harmful\/spam” warnings when clicking on competitors’ links. This caused me to (for the n-th time since 2022) Google for “Twitter alternatives”. But clear results are hard to find in today’s SEO-mess, and sifting through old\/unstructured news articles isn’t ideal either. So I spent a few hours making twitter-alternatives.com<\/a> (and twitalternatives.com<\/a>).<\/p>

    It’s a simple table of all currently known Twitter Alternatives and their main traits, like Top Countries, Platforms, Security, Notable Accounts, etc.<\/p>

    […]<\/p>

    My main learning from this is that surprisingly, nobody has literally just cloned Twitter and focused on porting everyone over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

    Previously:<\/p>\n