Like a voodoo doll pressed down by an overzealous amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter is starting to unravel at the seams. Now it is an open question if Known musk revenge tendency He broke another aspect of the site as Substack writers say their attempts to promote their work on twitter and We are being obstructed.
Users widely reported that they are unable to comment or retweet any post that contains a Substack link. Likewise, on Thursday, Substack Certain that the Twitter embed is no longer working on Substack, adding that it was trying to fix the issue.
Early Friday morning, stSenders can post a Substack link, but every time you try to comment or retweet those links, a message appears that says, “Some actions in this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter.” Developer Jane Manchun Wong confirmed that some attempts to interact with the Substack link also resulted in a “Authorization: Posts are limited by tweet” error.
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In Gizmodo’s own tests, we’ve found that some old Substack links posted on Thursday or earlier are still pretty good. There is also no problem we can find with Substack links that don’t have the word “Substack” in the name. However, you try to retweet or comment on function containing a Link with Substack in the URL From Friday morning onwards, it results wrong message. What’s even stranger is that users can quote freelyTweet those posts without a problem.
These issues come a few days after Substack introduced new features aimed at attracting Twitter users. On Wednesday, the company announced its new newsletter Notes feature. It functions as a kind of Twitter-lite, where users can post short content and “share ideas with each other and their readers”. The interface itself bears a striking resemblance to Twitter, including the “What’s on your mind?” Prompt at the top of the page next to File user‘s profile picture.
Gizmodo reached out to Substack for an update if it learned something new, but we didn’t hear back right away. If we try to access Twitter, the site will send us a “poop” emoji, On Musk’s orders. Musk, the de facto PR device for bird app has not yet responded to user inquiries about this issue.
Shortly after Musk took over the platform last October, Substack began desperately trying to recruit Twitter refugees looking for a way Off Musk’s sunken ship. Last year, the company unveiled Substack Chat for writers to talk directly to readers, but this latest feature appears to deal directly with Twitter itself. Twitter recently announced changes to the platform’s API, including introducing paid tiers of access to the company’s developer tools. Some developers like those working on the Discord-to-Twitter bot TweetShift earlier this week announced that they are Suspended from the API.
If this is true revenge against Substack, the implementation is incredibly wonky and ill-conceived. If it weren’t for the timing of Substack Notes, this would be much easier to figure out Just another flaw On an experienced platform several outages in recent months. Musk culled the global Twitter staff and site Engineering teams aimed at maintaining platform stability have been significantly reduced. When your platform crashes in front of everyone’s eyes, there is plenty of room for plausible deniability against accusations Anti-competitive practices.
Users can of course post screenshots of tweets to Substack blogs, but this doesn’t offer anywhere near the same functionality. If Twitter is trying to make itself more than a self-contained walled garden, restricting other apps to the platform is just the beginning.
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