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Substack Responds to ‘Abrupt’ Twitter Sharing Restrictions

by tjwds on 4/8/23, 2:06 PM with 2 comments

  • by antiquark on 4/8/23, 3:44 PM

    Musk's comment on the matter:

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779

    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.