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This is a serious question: in what sense does Substack compete with Twitter? The former (to my understanding) is a Medium-style blog host with some monetizatio

This is a serious question: in what sense does Substack compete with Twitter? The former (to my understanding) is a Medium-style blog host with some monetization functionality; the latter is a social network that was originally (but is no longer) advertised as microblogging. (This is before other, more basic criticisms of Substack, like that it seems to have really only had success with a small group of bloggers who I would pay money not to be exposed to.)

jatinshah 4y ago
Twitter influencers/thought leaders are the users that Substack would want to acquire and build their product around them.
dragontamer 4y ago
This all occurred within the last 3 or 4 days. This is extremely fresh news. Substack announced "Substack Notes", which is obviously a Twitter clone. Then, Twitter has disabled likes and retweets of _ANY_ post mentioning "substack". Today: we are seeing the lines form of the Substack supporters vs Twitter supporters. Its no longer possible to host a blog on Substack and post links to that blog on Twitter. (Well... its "possible", but your links ain't gonna attract a lot of traffic without retweets or likes, so more like its pointless) So the bloggers using Substack are forced to choose.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  This is all context I missed! Thank you.
samwillis 4y ago
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 https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
- kelipso 4y ago
  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.
  - samwillis 4y ago
    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.
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  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# https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/revue#

jatinshah 4y ago

Twitter influencers/thought leaders are the users that Substack would want to acquire and build their product around them.

dragontamer 4y ago

This all occurred within the last 3 or 4 days. This is extremely fresh news. Substack announced "Substack Notes", which is obviously a Twitter clone. Then, Twitter has disabled likes and retweets of _ANY_ post mentioning "substack". Today: we are seeing the lines form of the Substack supporters vs Twitter supporters. Its no longer possible to host a blog on Substack and post links to that blog on Twitter. (Well... its "possible", but your links ain't gonna attract a lot of traffic without retweets or likes, so more like its pointless) So the bloggers using Substack are forced to choose.

woodruffw 4y ago
This is all context I missed! Thank you.

samwillis 4y ago

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 https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes

kelipso 4y ago
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.
- samwillis 4y ago
  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.
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
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# https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/revue#