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This is a smart move by Twitter. Substack has taken off considerably. Rather than watch all their prized users go publish long form content on a platform outsid
by jhunter1016 6y ago
This is a smart move by Twitter. Substack has taken off considerably. Rather than watch all their prized users go publish long form content on a platform outside their orbit, Twitter just pulled a platform into their orbit.
The thing I’m curious about is how creative Twitter will get with integrating the platforms. There have been a lot of missed opportunities with previous Twitter acquisitions IMO.
- AzzieElbab 6y agoI don’t thin substack crowd would trust Twitter with their content.
- the_reformation 6y agoThe Substack crowd is already on Twitter, and is where they got their audience from.
- AzzieElbab 6y agoThat is an overstatement. I might be a dinosaur, but in my case it is the other way around. I mostly follow people I have learned about elsewhere. Also, if Twitter decides to ban one of them, I will still have access to substack where the articles are.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoI think Twitter would be okay if the history professor with the $1m Substack comes over to them and people like Glenn Greenwald stay at Substack though.
- AzzieElbab 6y agoYou are right. I am biased by my substack subscriptions list
- whiddershins 6y agoHistory professor with 1m substack? Is this a specific reference?
- mcintyre1994 6y agoYep: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-co...