Apr 12, 2023 14:00:00

Anyone can use Substack's Twitter-like service ``Notes'' that Twitter's Elon Mask is wary of imposing tweet restrictions

On April 5, 2023, the content distribution service `` Substack '', which mainly focuses on text, announced the Twitter-style short-text posting service `` Notes ''. Immediately after this Notes announcement, problems such as ``

Twitter posts cannot be embedded in Substack articles '' and `` Tweets containing Substack URLs cannot be retweeted '' occurred. It was pointed out that these problems were caused by Twitter's Elon Musk, CEO, who felt Notes was a threat. Notes, which is considered to threaten such Twitter, will be released to the public on April 12, 2023.

Now live for all: Substack Notes - On Substack
https://on.substack.com/p/notes

Notes questions answered - On Substack
https://on.substack.com/p/notes-faq

Substack is an e-mail magazine-like long-text posting service, and it was difficult to compete with short-text posting SNS such as Twitter. However, on April 5, 2023, Substack announced 'Notes', a service that allows users to post short sentences and images. The day after this Notes announcement, there was a problem that 'tweets cannot be embedded in Substack articles'.

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

Furthermore, from around April 8, 2023, a problem occurred on Twitter that ``I can't like or retweet 'Tweets from Substack's official account' or 'Tweets containing links to Substack'. This like & retweet restriction was lifted around April 9th, but from April 9th, 'tweets containing links to Substack' will be marked as 'not safe'. .

Twitter makes it impossible to retweet some tweets or displays a warning that it is 'unsafe' to shut out competing services-GIGAZINE

It has been pointed out that the series of restrictions on Substack is 'the result of Twitter, led by Mr. Mask, recognizing Notes as a threat.' Such Notes was released to the public on April 12, 2023 and is now available to all users.

An example of a Notes post looks like this: In addition to being able to post short sentences, it also has a reply function and a like function. In addition, a repost function 'Restack' similar to retweet is also installed.

You can also include images in your posts. Looking only at the post part, it is quite similar to Twitter.

Notes is already available at the time of article creation. To use Notes from a PC, log in to Substack from the link below. The app version of Substack also has a Notes tab.

Notes | Substack
https://substack.com/notes