Shots Fired: The Twitter-Substack War & Matt Taibbi's Not-So-Good-Friday
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Apr 08, 2023 - 05:00 PM
As the first Easter weekend in three years with the possibility of 'normality' in social interactions, 'Good Friday' turned into a 'No Good, Very Bad Friday' for many Substack-ers, including most notably Twitter Files-amplifying journalist Matt Taibbi.
As The Epoch Times' Tom Ozimek writes, Taibbi, who posts his articles on Substack and is one of the most popular contributors on the platform, announced he’s leaving Twitter in protest of apparent changes that have made the platform unusable for him.
The indefatigable independent journalist made the announcement in a post titled “The Craziest Friday Ever” and a series of tweets, in which he said that he had just learned that Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
“When I asked why, I was told it’s a dispute over the new Substack Notes platform,” Taibbi wrote in a tweet.
By way of background, Substack recently announced Notes, a feature that allows short-form posts similar to tweets.
The move appears to have prompted Twitter to retaliate by blocking the ability to share Substack links on Twitter or like, retweet, and comment on tweets that include a link to Substack articles.
“We’re investigating reports that Twitter embeds and authentication no longer work on Substack,” Substack said on its own Twitter account.
“We are actively trying to resolve this and will share updates as additional information becomes available.”
Which could be a major problem for writers who have chosen Substack as their distribution and marketing platform, since 25% of Substack traffic comes from Social Media...
Full article is on ZeroHedge, interesting development.
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