Matt Taibbi, one of the handpicked publishers of so-called “Twitter Files,” told his readers on Friday that he was giving up on Twitter after Chief Twit restricted links to Substack this week.
On Friday, Twitter He started blocking users from engaging in Tweets containing links to Substack articles, and blocking any likes, retweets, and comments from these posts. Additionally, users were unable to pin any tweets to the top of their profile if they included a Substack link.
It has been Speculate widely Twitter has disabled Substack from the site because its online publishing platform It was launched recently A new feature called Substack Notes, which provides a Twitter-like feed for authors and subscribers to the newsletter site.
“Writers deserve the freedom to share links to Substack or elsewhere. This sudden change is a reminder of why writers deserve a model that holds them accountable, rewards great work with money, and protects freedom of the press and freedom of expression,” said Substack co-founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairagh. Sethi in a statement on Friday. “Their livelihoods should not be tied to platforms where they do not own their relationship with their audience, and where the rules can change on a whim.”
Since Twitter was the main platform for Substack writers to share their newsletters and articles, and Musk relied largely on Substack journalists to post his Twitter profiles, the move was met with Widespread backlash through the social networking site. Even from some of him fiercest defenders.
El-Tayeb was not happy, after a brutal and controversial interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hassan about some of the mistakes of his Twitter profiles, that he couldn’t Involved His most recent post on Substack is critical of MSNBC and Hasan.
after Post to Substack Chat That disabling Substack links on Twitter would “potentially render the platform unusable for me,” Taibbi sent an email to his subscribers announcing that he was saying goodbye to Twitter.
“Earlier this afternoon, I learned that Substack links have been blocked on Twitter. Since being able to share my articles is the main reason I use Twitter, I panicked and asked what was going on,” he wrote.
“It turns out that Twitter is upset about the new Substack Notes feature, which they see as hostile competition,” Taibah continued. “When I asked how I was supposed to market my work, I was given the option to post my articles on Twitter instead of Substack.”
He concluded, “Not too much suspense; I’m staying at Substack. You’ve all been great to me, as has the management of this company. Starting early next week, I’ll be using the new Substack Notes feature (which you’ll all have access to) instead of Twitter.” , a decision that appears to have a price in terms of any future Twitter profiles reporting. It was totally worth it and I will always be grateful to those who gave me the opportunity to work on that story, but man, this is a crazy planet.”
Shortly after Eltayeb sent his farewell email to Twitter, Musk Non-follower Twitter profile reporter.
Somewhat ironically, Thebes’ sudden exit from Twitter comes after the first Rolling Stone A journalist repeatedly praised Musk as “good for Twitter” while refusing to condemn the Twitter chief’s censorship of journalists.
“No, I don’t particularly want that,” Taibi said Thursday, when asked if he would be willing to criticize Musk for Block access to Twitter accounts at the request of the Government of India.
After Taiba’s departure on Twitter, Hassan couldn’t help but get a parting shot.
“Wait, literally the day after you told me that Elon Musk loves and admires him, especially because of Musk’s handling of Twitter, his refusal to criticize Elon Musk, the good leaves Musk on Twitter? You literally can’t make this stuff up,” MSNBC host chirp.
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