Aaron RuparSo Elon Musk, apparently throwing a fit after Substack announced a Twitter-like "Notes" product earlier this week, has now not only blocked tweets from being embedded in Substack posts but has blocked Substack articles from being shared on Twitter. It's preposterous but also reflective of his broader philosophy for ruini-- I mean running the company, which is hostage-taking and destruction instead of trying to grow the platform by, you know, improving it.
My video tweets alone have done more than 4 billion views over the years. I don't expect Twitter to throw a parade for me, but it would be nice if they would at least just leave progressive creators and journalists alone. Instead, every week seems to bring new opportunities to shit on us and make it increasingly difficult to use the platform to promote our content. It's ridiculous, and I'm going to take today off from providing free content for Elon.
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BarbaraKB in Michigan@atrupar as long as #journalists continue to have unique content, threads and discussions at Twitter alone, Mastodon, and other outlets, will grow slowly.
I understand why journalists continue with a presence at Twitter but it *must* be repeated elsewhere. I will no longer give my own original content or reply to journalists at the bird site any more. #TwitterMigration
🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸I'll tell you why they still use Twitter. Their corporate masters tell them in order to please their advertisers
@lednabm @barbarakb @atrupar that’s not quite how journalism works. many sites are non-profit or not-for-profit. I’ve seen quite a few pull back on their presence (just a news feed of links).
@barbarakb @atrupar Great point...
It would be nice for that to be the case; however, in practice, it's not going to work that way. There are way too many absolutists on both sides of the circular spectrum. You know, where one end meets the other.
@barbarakb @atrupar Well said...
KimberlyN 
Same here. Mastodon is for conversations. And I believe it can, and should, be an integral part of independent journalism’s social reach in 2023.
@KimberlyN @barbarakb @lednabm @atrupar I remember the early Twitter days. Journalists ignored us then. :)