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Re:Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill ... by samwillis on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:54AM (#35493769)
Two fold:

- A significant fraction of Substacks growth has been popular Twitter users monetising their audience. Twitter should have build Substack, I think it's obvious that they will be launching an equivalent product as they become revenue focused.

- Substack just launched "Substack Notes" which looks like a mini Twitter: https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes

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Re:Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill ... by kelipso on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:20AM (#35494097)
Seems to me like a strategic mistake on Substack's part, making Substack Notes. They're too small to get the ire of twitter and this blocking will hurt them, though to be fair twitter is a mess right now.
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Re:Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill ... by samwillis on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:31AM (#35494255)
I think the issue is that with some of the (erratic) decisions from Twitter over the last six months they were probably quite worried about bing locked out of the platform anyway. They had to hedge in some way, and will have know that would bring risks.
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Re:Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill ... by ZeroGravitas on Saturday April 08, 2023 @12:18PM (#35494767)
Twitter bought/built a substack-a-like called Revue.

The outgoing CEO posted to it the day before it was scrapped.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/revue#

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