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#CA: #SanJoaquinValley: Substack vs Twitter in a great social media brouhaha. #DevinNunes #TruthSocial #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#CA: #SanJoaquinValley: Substack vs Twitter in a great social media brouhaha. #DevinNunes #TruthSocial
#FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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0:00.0

This is the Friends Vista Debating Society. I'm John Bachelord, the CEO of the Guru of True Social,

0:06.0

where very carefully and casually, without much noise, the First Amendment is practiced.

0:12.0

A good idea. If you're attracting a global audience to post short tweets, well,

0:18.0

they're not tweets. Their short little messages with video is possible with still photos,

0:24.0

which is what I use. I like to use photos from before 1940.

0:28.0

I found a whopper of a photo of a salient, the first photo I've ever taken. Please, Devon.

0:34.0

Devons here, however, to comment on something else. Devon, I don't understand this story. Help me.

0:40.0

It's about, I guess, competition for you, but you're so much more than Twitter.

0:44.0

I don't want to say you're in one box. You're also Instagram. You're also looking at video.

0:50.0

You're making true social into Swiss Army Knife of Social Media. This is about Substack.

0:56.0

Substack writers say Twitter's newsletter ban is bad for business and worse for Twitter.

1:02.0

I believe this is the verge reporting. This week, Twitter began restricting the promotion of links to

1:08.0

Substack newsletters, a move that seems to fly in the face of owner Elon Musk's vocal support

1:13.0

of free speech on the platform. The change is a huge problem for Substack writers who have found Twitter

1:19.0

to be one of the best places to attract new subscribers to their newsletters.

1:24.0

Do you understand this, Devon? Substack is, they write articles. They're journalists and some of them get paid.

1:30.0

Like Matt Tayyibi, I subscribe to his substack. I think I pay him $5 a month, something phenomenal.

1:37.0

And I get that in the video and the video audio of his conversation with a colleague of his.

1:44.0

And everybody else on Substack is a journalist, a blogger, an editor.

1:50.0

So what is this competition between Substack and Twitter? Why would Musk move to, once again, the word is a move to ban.

2:03.0

Change is a huge problem. Restricting. That's the polite way of saying ban. Do you understand this, Devon?

2:10.0

John, I don't understand the move by Twitter to do that. A few months ago, they actually did the same thing to True Social,

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