Substack CEO pushes back at Elon, says Twitter situation is “very frustrating”

Musk sort-of defined his choice in a reply this week by claiming that Substack was “making an attempt to obtain an enormous portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone” which could be very humorous — simply think about beginning any form of Twitter competitor and prepopulating it with the rubbish of Twitter — and in addition a reasonably large declare to make with none proof.

Anyhow, Substack CEO Chris Greatest responded to Elon with a submit on Substack Notes, after all. The characteristic in in beta so there’s no permalink as but, however he handed it alongside to us and we’re posting a screenshot so folks can check with it.

Greatest says Substack has used the Twitter API for years and thinks they’re in compliance with the phrases of service; the implication is that Twitter by no means instructed the corporate about any alleged violation. And naturally, Greatest says the entire scenario is “very irritating,” with a nod to the truth that Substack writers are literally prospects of his enterprise software program product; messing with Substack hyperlinks has extra impression on particular person small enterprise house owners than it does on the platform firm.

It’s price noting right here that Andreesen Horowitz is an investor in each Substack and neo-Twitter, in order that’s going nice. And for those who’re studying this you possibly can in all probability simply react to the phrases “free speech,” “Twitter,” and “Elon Musk” in no matter approach kicks your Saturday night time off proper. I belief you. Celebration onerous.