Apr 10, 2023 11:59:00

Twitter makes it impossible to retweet some tweets due to the exclusion of competing services or displays a warning message 'not safe'

Twitter has displayed a warning message on tweets containing links to

Substack , a subscription-type newsletter distribution platform, one of its competing services, and has temporarily prohibited likes and retweets from Substack tweets. This is reportedly a hostile act against Twitter-like features announced by Substack.

Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674936/twitter-marking-substack-links-unsafe

Substack is a subscription-type newsletter distribution platform, but on April 5, 2023, it announced its own Twitter-like function 'Memo' . Since then, Twitter has clearly taken hostile action against Substack, with tweet embeds no longer working on Substack on April 7.

It turns out that Twitter has banned the embedding of tweets on specific sites - GIGAZINE

Furthermore, from around the 8th, Twitter began disabling likes and retweets for tweets containing links to Substack. It seems that even tweets from your own account could not be replied or liked if they contained a link to Substack. Additionally, Twitter has begun to impose similar restrictions on tweets on Substack's official Twitter account .

I can't even reply to my own Tweet if it's got a Substack link in it pic.twitter.com/LLaQuFksmM

—Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) April 7, 2023

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who leaked Twitter's internal document ' Twitter file ' with Elon Musk's endorsement, is one of the journalists who distributed newsletters on Substack, but his tweets containing links to Substack It seems that you can no longer like or retweet. After that, Taibbi said, ``Twitter is angry about Substack's new memo function and sees it as a hostile rival.'' ``Twitter is using it to share links to newsletters on Substack. I asked if there was anything else I could do instead, and was told to post an article on Twitter, as I will be doing a newsletter on Substack. , We will move to the new feature of Substack, Memo, from next week, ”he announced that he would quit using Twitter.

Since sharing links to my articles is a primary reason I come to this platform, I was alarmed and asked what was going on. I was given the option of posting articles on Twitter instead.

I'm obviously staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next week.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) April 7, 2023

In response, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said, 'Substack's link is not blocked. Matt 's statement is wrong.' I was trying to download a part, so their IP address is clearly unreliable.' ``It became clear that Matt was an employee of Substack,'' and blocked the link to Substack. clarified that it is not.

1. Substack links were never blocked. Matt's statement is false.

2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.

3. Turns out Matt is/was an employee of Substack.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 8, 2023

Substack said it would investigate the inability to like or retweet official Twitter tweets, but reported that the restrictions on likes and retweets were lifted on April 9.

We're glad to see that the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter appears to be over. This is the right move for writers, who deserve the freedom to share their work.

— Substack (@SubstackInc) April 9, 2023

However, tweets with links containing a new 'substack.com' are now displayed with a warning that 'not safe'. If you actually click on the link, you will see a warning message saying 'The link you are trying to access has been identified as potentially spam or unsafe by Twitter or its partners.'

Twitter has

a commitment to block links , and this commitment has not changed since July 2020. And since Substack itself appears to be working as usual, The Verge wrote, ``We can't know exactly what Twitter's warning to Substack's link is about.'' I'm here. In addition, The Verge wrote, ``When I checked the Substack links marked as unsafe, they were all completely safe links,'' questioning Twitter's warning.

・Postscript April 10, 2023 14:00
Even if you search Twitter for the URL of this article, `` https://gigazine.net/news/20230410-twitter-marking-substack-links-unsafe/ '', the article's URL contains ``substack''. For some reason , tweets with URLs are not displayed.