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Episode: Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
Description: It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a bit like Twitter — Substack authors can post short bits of text to share links and kick off discussions, and people can reply to them, like the posts, the whole thing. Like I said, Twitter.Twitter, under the direction of Elon Musk, did not like the prospect of this competition, and for several days last week, Twitter was ta...