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The home for great culture. Get the app: https://t.co/acZVN0MYVm
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Joined June 2017
Join us tomorrow for the Substack Market Forecast Summit for key insights on the economy, markets, and business from top independent voices, streamed live on the Substack app.
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We're investigating reports that Twitter embeds and authentication no longer work on Substack. We are actively trying to resolve this and will share updates as additional information becomes available.
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Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX): "You posted on your umm I guess it's kind of like a web page. I don't quite understand what Substack is."
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As we face growing pressure to censor content published on Substack, our position remains unchanged: We will always view censorship as a last resort, because we believe open discourse is better for writers and better for society. Read more:
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We started Substack because we wanted the internet to be better for writers and readers. Today, we're taking a big step towards a better internet. Introducing Notes, a new way for writing, ideas, and discussion to travel through the Substack network.
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We’re glad to see that the suppression of Substack publications on Twitter appears to be over. This is the right move for writers, who deserve the freedom to share their work.
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A statement from our founders: . Any platform that benefits from writers’ and creators’ work but doesn’t give them control over their relationships will inevitably wonder how to respond to the platforms that do.
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Today we enabled Bitcoin payments, beginning with select crypto publications. We will continue to invest in features that offer writers more control over their subscriptions and community. To read some of the great crypto writing on Substack, visit:
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Introducing the Substack app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get it now for iPhone and iPad: Learn more 👇
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Introducing Reader, a cozy space for you to keep up with your newsletters, as well as more ways for you to discover writers from our new homepage.
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Today we’re launching Notes to everyone. Notes is a new space where you can publish short-form posts and share ideas with other writers and readers.
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Substack stands by @RanaAyyub. Rana is a champion for free press who cares deeply about her community and seeking truth through journalism. She’s emblematic of our shared passion for independent publishing and freedom of information.
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David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) of Nigeria is an award-winning investigative journalist aiming to tell Nigeria’s stories through dives deep into topical issues combined with informed commentary and analysis.
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We believe that Twitter and Substack can continue to coexist and complement each other. We look forward to making Substack Notes available soon, but we expect it to be a new kind of place within a subscription network, not a replacement for existing social networks.
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Uncertainty around health insurance is often enough to prevent writers from going independent. Today, we’re excited to announce Substack Health, a program to subsidize health care for writers and connect them to insurance plans.
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If you're on the lookout for Twitter alternatives, consider building your audience on Substack. 1. You'll always own your email list.2. Get paid for your work or write for free.3. Connect directly with your community.
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We're very excited to announce 10 new Substack fellows – + 5 honorary mentions – who will receive financial and strategic support. $100k for the top recipient. That’s author and essayist Kaitlyn Greenidge (@surlybassey).
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Today we are launching Chat, a new space for writers and creators to host conversations with their subscribers. Try Chat now:
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The next Substack Fellowship for Independent Writers. $100,000 for the top recipient. Four other fellows get financial support + more. Let’s build a better future for writing.
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If you're interested in accepting Bitcoin payments on Substack, add your name to our wait list here:
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For the last few months, we have been piloting a legal support program for independent writers on Substack. Today, we’re making it more widely available.
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These are terrible times for journalists. But now we can build a better, sustainable future for journalism. Substack co-founder @hamishmckenzie shares his thoughts on where we can go from here.
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In 2020, we resolve to communicate that Substack is about more than just newsletters. Substack gets you: .- A website.- Homepage + archives.- Discussion tools.- Free podcasting.- Subscription tools. All free and much more to come!.
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We asked five writers from around the globe to reflect on World Press Freedom Day. Read essays from @asiasentinel, @ChrisLynnHedges, @DavidHundeyin, @NikitaSPetrov, and @RanaAyyub:
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Today we’re announcing a fellowship program, a small step in a long term effort to support writers. Congrats & thanks to @emorwee, @theferocity, @linzsports, @sarahbessey, & @girlsreallyrule.
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Substack is now two years old. We are building a new ecosystem for media that helps great writing flourish. Here's how we're doing that, and what's next.
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.@BowTiedBull has uniquely helped other anonymous writers across categories launch and grow publications. Read more:.
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We are excited to share the twelve winners of Substack Local, a $1 million initiative to help independent writers start sustainable local news enterprises. Learn more about the winners:.
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Today we’re starting a process that will let writers invest in Substack. You can find the full details of this community round, which will also be open to non-writers if there is room, and make an investment here:
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We’re making a major bet on comics creators because we think it’s better when they’re in charge.
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Now groups of writers can work together on a single Substack publication. Plus:. - New publication homepage design .- Photo bylines.- Author profiles .- And more .
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We're excited to be teaming up with @stripe and writers on Substack to help fund the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. 🌎 Find out how you can help. > >
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Writing anonymously doesn't mean you won't grow. In this week's Grow interview, @BowTiedBull shares how they grew to be the #2 Substack in crypto. Here's their advice for other anonymous writers: ⬇️ 🧵.
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Introducing the Substack Android app. It’s like your email inbox, but better. Get the app:
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If you are from Deadspin and would like to do Deadspin except with you as the owner, come talk to us.
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New tool for writers: Audience insights . In your dashboard, a new tab in Stats shows where you subscribers are located around the world. The new insights also display audience overlap with other Substack publications.
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A long-requested feature is now available for writers: image galleries. You can now upload multiple images side-by-side from within the editor. Enjoy!
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"Unfortunately the toxicity of twitter has progressively gotten worse, while at the same time the ability to reach followers has become seriously impaired. On the other hand, [Substack] is more favorable for providing explanations, and less chance to be taken out of context".
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When we started Substack, the claim was always "Oh, that can work for tech but not much else." Just ask @Jessicalessin & @benthompson. Who would have bet that climate change coverage could be lucrative?. But here's Emily, writing serious climate change news. Succeeding. Wildly.
well well well . look who just became the top female earner on Substack
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In each edition of What to Read, we ask the featured writer to recommend another Substack. Kwame recommends @ggreenwald's Substack "I appreciate how investigative and exploratory his writing is.".
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We are only 89,000 followers away from having 100k Twitter followers. Follow us now! @SubstackInc.
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"At the start of 2022, this newsletter had 8,000 subscribers. Today, as the year comes to a close, there are over 53,000 people here. I cannot possibly explain how grateful I am." - @jessicadefino_ .
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Product news: . Writers can now "duplicate" posts, which enables you to easily re-use templates instead of reformatting each post from scratch. Just click ". " by one of your posts and "Duplicate to drafts."
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📣 Today we are rolling out recommendations, a new feature that allows writers to directly endorse each other’s publications on Substack. Learn more:
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We've just released an updated version of our subscriber dashboard, which you can use to:. * Understand your subscribers' behavior.* Create filtered lists.* Send emails to a subset of your list.
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Congratulations to @JuddLegum on five years of Popular Information and publishing on Substack!. Judd has taught our team so much and helped us make Substack better for other writers. Thank you, Judd!.
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"Tee Collins was an animation trailblazer with a huge impact on his industry, but his legacy is not well-known today. This post by @ani_obsessive restores Collins to his rightful place in history." . Read more:
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Introducing Substack Local, a $1M initiative to help independent writers build the local news ecosystem.
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1. Substack writers own all their IP, mailing list, and payment relationships. You're not locked into the platform, and there are no dictators. You can leave and take everything with you anytime.
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Today there are more than 20 million monthly active subscribers and 2 million paid subscriptions to writers on Substack. More interesting things are to come. As we move into the next phase of growth, our aim is to build a new economic engine for culture👇.
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Congratulations, Chris, on being the first NBA player on Substack.
🚨Big News🚨 . Introducing: The Last Chip . A newsletter where I spill stories from The Big Three's last championship season. Subscribe for the laughs, the tears, and the lessons learned: . First month's proceeds donated to @colorofchange. #BLM.
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If you have not already started a Substack, please do so now.
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It is our humble opinion that journalism doesn't need saving. But the business that supports journalism needs reinventing. We hope to help make it better than ever.
Can Substack save journalism?
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Today we're introducing the Substack Bestseller badge. Paying readers, not Substack, decide who gets a badge. We don’t give out these badges for subjective reasons and they can’t be bought. Learn more:
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Join us for our monthly Shoutout Thread, starting now. We host these threads because we know writers & readers want more ways to discover great writing on Substack. Share your favorites here:.
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Here’s an excerpt from the conversation, recorded live in front of an audience at Substack HQ:
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We've shipped a new feature that gives writers more control when growing their subscriber base. Starting today, writers can determine how much of a post for paying subscribers they want to show to free readers, and can send that preview to free readers with a call to subscribe.
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📚 Are you working on an upcoming book or are you a published author? 📚. Tell us about your book and how you use Substack to build or rally an audience around your book 👇.
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Here's a meaty interview with our CEO and co-founder @cjgbest about the meaning of Substack. "We're in an important moment of how we consume and fund writing and culture".
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Someone tweeted the other day that Substack not supporting @Bandcamp embeds was toxic masculinity. So, now we support Bandcamp embeds.
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The next steps for Substack. Let's put writers and readers back in charge.
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If you have a Substack newsletter but you have not listed the URL in your Twitter bio, you are missing out on subscribers. Please go ahead and add that URL.
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Announcing the 44 recipients from our grant program to support writers during the current crisis:
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A substack is a personal paid publication. Email + web + audio + video + community. Built on a trusted relationship between reader and writer. Maybe you should have your own.
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Announcing Substack Bridge, an eight-week, guided mentorship program that pairs emerging and established Substack writers. Applications are open until Monday. Meet the mentors and apply with the link. ✨.
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“We’re moving out of the era of platforms owning people and into an era of people owning platforms.” - @hamishmckenzie . Read more about how Apple’s in-app purchase policies are affecting platforms like Patreon, and what this means for the future of the internet:
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Ever wonder which people you follow on Twitter also have Substacks? Now you can. 😉
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To all the people who say nice things about Substack on Twitter. Thanks!.
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Welcome to Substack, @JonHaidt!.
Thread: .1. Today I’m launching the After Babel Substack. It’s about how recent changes in technology made so many things go to to hell in the 2010s, especially teen mental health and liberal democracies .
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Substack for audio. Subscription podcasting made simple. Own your audience.
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While we caught the error early, it was too late to retract that first batch. We are so sorry this happened – and we are aware of the irony. This was a genuine mistake, we feel terrible about it, and we will do everything in our power to never repeat it.
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@Jessicalessin @benthompson A common question: "How many Judd Legums/Bill Bishops/Emily Atkins are there out there?". Better question: "How many people are happy to pay a little for better media?". Our bet is: many, many millions.
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Welcome, JP. It's great to have you with us.
Yes I have an announcement: ¡Hola Papi! is back! More on that in a second. My first column of the new year is about how we deal with pain and how we can move on.
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In the coming days, we will start rolling out Substack Notes to writers and readers. We at Substack intend to do a lot of exploring. And we hope you’ll come with us.
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Today we’re introducing embeds for prediction markets from @Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction platform, and marking the launch of its new Substack, The Oracle. We are introducing this new feature to coincide with the advent of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Read on:
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When it came to growing the audience for her Substack .the @ProfileRead, @polina_marinova built a following by staying consistent: "There are no growth hacks to trust. Showing up for your readers over time is what’s most important.". Read more:
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Four years ago, it was far from accepted that people would pay for newsletters en masse. Today, we can announce that there are more than 1 million paid subscriptions to publications on Substack.
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@mhartl @JDHamkins The LaTeX beta is now live! If you experience any bugs, please let us know.
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Writer success is Substack’s top priority. We succeed only when they succeed. Today we are excited to invite writers to Substack Grow, a series of six sessions covering the essential knowledge writers need to grow their readership and paid subscriptions.
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Please tell everyone in the world this so we don’t have to pay for advertising.
Published a free podcast episode yesterday on @SubstackInc ( and within a 24 hours got 5 new paying subscribers (and I've not yet submitted this podcast anywhere else) - thanks @hamishmckenzie & @cjgbest for creating such a beast of a platform
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If you're a Revue writer looking for a new home for your publication, we'd love to have you on Substack. You can import your mailing list, writing archive, and Stripe payment information from Revue with one click here:
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Congrats to @mtaibbi, who's just left Rolling Stone to write full-time on Substack!.
Announcement: I'm making a move
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Today we're reading Espionage&, a publication by .@ShaunakSA about the real-life stories of spies and their handlers from around the world. Read more:
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This writer- and reader-first model represents the future of the internet. While incumbents may take actions to stymie this shift, we’ll be working hard to ensure that writers and creators get only more ownership and control of their futures.
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This evening we published an update to our privacy policy, terms of use, and publisher agreements and mistakenly sent an email notification to a small percentage of Substack users that included many email addresses in the ‘to’ line. 1/2.
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We're working with @beondeck to help more people build a career out of writing: On Deck is an eight-week program for writers. We'll be there to offer our advice, alongside other Substack writers like @polina_marinova and @ByrneHobart.
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On Substack, ads and algorithms don't get in the way of your relationships with the people who subscribe to your writing and podcast. You own your mailing list, subscriber payments, and IP. If you decide to leave, you’ll take what you’ve built with you.
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This year we made tremendous progress in helping writers grow. One year ago, the Substack network drove ~10% of free subscriptions. Today, Substack's network is the source of 40% of all free subscriptions. Here's a close look at our team's efforts:.
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The social media giants are going after the Substack opportunity. Good. The world needs it. We invite them to go all in. Put writers and readers in charge.
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Substack Defender is one of many initiatives that will form a support structure for independent writers. Future initiatives will relate to healthcare, taxes, editing, design, and coworking spaces. Being independent shouldn’t mean being alone.
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We’ve been overwhelmed by the positive response to our community round. As a result, we’re increasing the allocation that we’re opening up to writers and readers in the community round to $5 million per year, the legal maximum under the Regulation Crowdfunding law.
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Great investing, finance, economics, and crypto writers are earning a living on Substack. Join our new publication, Investing On Substack, to learn from them, and share your own knowledge:
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We're donating $100K in grants to writers who've been affected by the pandemic. Apply today:
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Writers! Join us for Substack Grow, a free crash course on how to build a loyal audience of subscribers. Participating writers will get access to a community of peers and expert knowledge on growing publications.
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If you're looking to move relationships from Twitter to Substack, you can connect your Twitter account to Substack here:
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