Twitter seems to have blocked all interaction with tweets containing Substack links

Twitter users connected some mobile and web recovered themselves incapable to interact with tweets containing links to Substack pages connected April 7.

When galore users effort to like, retweet, oregon reply to posts containing Substack links, they’re fixed an mistake connection that “Some actions connected this tweet person been disabled by Twitter.” In immoderate cases, users study the UI seems to registry their similar oregon retweet, but upon inspection, it doesn’t look to beryllium counting oregon displaying the interactions.

Attempts to similar and stock Substack tweets look to person been disabled. 

It’s unclear astatine this clip whether the contented is simply a bug oregon an intended feature. Twitter appears to person chopped disconnected the quality for Substack users to embed tweets successful their posts arsenic of April 6 but, per The Verge, a spokesperson for Substack didn’t clarify whether they believed the contented progressive a alteration to the Twitter API oregon a bug. The inability of Twitter users to interact with tweets containing Substack links appears to person begun astir the aforesaid time, however, frankincense indicating the 2 problems are related. 

We're investigating reports that Twitter embeds and authentication nary longer enactment connected Substack. We are actively trying to resoluteness this and volition stock updates arsenic further accusation becomes available.

The contented comes connected the heels of aggregate recent, mysterious changes to Twitter, including respective days wherever the level featured a Doge image successful spot of Twitter’s vertebrate logo and non-profit media enactment National Public Radio (NPR) receiving a “state media” label.

It besides bears mentioning that Substack announced ‘Notes,’ a Twitter-like posting exertion that could beryllium seen arsenic contention to the vertebrate app, connected April 5.

Substack is often regarded arsenic a spot for expert-level bloggers to stock their thoughts with like-minded communities, thing the crypto assemblage has taken vantage of to a comparatively ample degree.

There are countless cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3-related blogs connected Substack with millions of subscribed readers. As 1 Twitter idiosyncratic noted, blocking enactment with posts from these authors featuring their enactment could person a chilling effect connected escaped discourse:

Cointelegraph reached retired to Twitter for remark and received a poop emoji successful response. We besides reached retired to Substack for remark but did not person an contiguous response.