Twitter Takes Aim at Posts That Link to Its Rival Substack

Paul Graham - 08/04:

> Elon has asked me to "please tell people on Twitter that you are an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter," so for anyone who didn't already know, Substack is a YC company.

Follow up tweet:

> It's not because I'm an investor that I think it's a mistake to penalize links to Substack though. It's just the wrong way to run a forum. You can't put your interests before users' like that. I would tell Substack the same thing.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1644635086715858944?t=-9FYL...

Ps. I'm happy to link to Twitter from HN, which is part of YC :).

Will try out substack notes. Elon ruined ( my still active Twitter) experience for me.

Twitter should have stayed with finding topics I care about, instead of trying to push dogecoin and Elon's interests in my face ( eg. Republican -> "Twitter Files").

Didn't Twitter try this half a year ago? Censoring links to competitors? That was rolled back swiftly. And I assumed the CEO learned their lesson. But no.

When the bar owner doesn't let you talk about a show in the other bar, only the most resigned patrons will stay. And everybody else will avoid the pit.

When Elon said he thought Twitter should be more like WeChat, I thought he meant payment features and the like, but nope, just censorship of things he doesn't like and boosting things he does.

Well....it is certainly more like WeChat now. Mission accomplished!

Even searching Twitter for “substack” now gives results for “newsletter” and Elon Musk. Nothing to see there.

How are they rivals? I read longform content on substack and D grade buzzfeed listicles on Twitter.