Elon Musk’s Twitter is again trying to make it harder for its users to interact with a competing online service. Links to the Substack blog platform have been blocked since the weekend. A few days ago, Substack announced a service called Notes that could become a competitor for Twitter.
Links to content on Substack are blocked with the reference that they have been classified as potentially unsafe. “We hope this is a bug and only temporary,” the Substack founders wrote in a response.
Twitter owner Musk, who also acts as the sole spokesman for the platform after the press department was dissolved, initially did not comment. Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter and, after a slump in sales, is trying to boost business with subscription income, among other things.
