Discussion

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  hello, here is some news Facebook is building a newsletter product, designed to court independent writers and journalists it could be similar to offerings from startups like Substack and Revue https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @lorenzofb Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on x

  As a journalist who has worked for almost 10 years at digital media companies, let me sarcastically say that I can't wait to use a Facebook product do journalism. https://twitter.com/...

• @lollardfish David M. Perry on x

  One of my reaction other than fury is that many of us used writer pages this way and then Facebook changed the system so that if you didn't pay to promote a post only like 10% of your audience saw it. https://twitter.com/...

• @bcmerchant Brian Merchant on x

  still manages to impress that the hot technology every major tech company *must* replicate in the 2020s is an email newsletter https://twitter.com/...

• @bosefina Bo Ren on x

  I fought tooth and nail 5 years ago to get FB to invest in writers. I was the only PM who believed text is not dead. They told me “we're just an ingestion engine for content” and your product (Facebook Notes) is too niche to get funding. Wow, how the tables have turned 🙃 https://…

• @thekarachikid @thekarachikid on x

  Last time Facebook did this a lot of journalists lost their jobs. Remember “pivot to video” ? https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @chronotope Aram Zucker-Scharff on x

  Facebook really just can't help itself from ripping off every hot new product that holds in the headlines for more than a few months, can it? https://twitter.com/...

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  App rush: Everyone wants in on creator trend https://www.axios.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Does Facebook have one fresh idea or do they need to swipe them all? Listen to my Sway interview this week with @SubstackInc ceo @cjgbest, who appears to be the latest to be shoplifted by the social media giant: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @davechensky David Chen on x

  Facebook is developing a Substack-like tool for writers. That's awesome because they also made that Medium-like tool (Notes) and forced people to pay to reach Fans on their Pages, and have done all that other stuff to get creators paid (Example Not Found) https://www.nytimes.com/…

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  As someone who writes a reasonably successful newsletter, let me just say I would burn it to ash before letting Facebook touch anything about it. https://twitter.com/...

• @econ_marshall Marshall Steinbaum on x

  I took away your livelihood as online journalists so you went to newsletters. Now please host your newsletter on my platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  One of the keys to developing a successful independent newsletter is gaining the trust of your readers. Partnering with a company that makes money through data harvesting and surveillance probably isn't a great way to start. https://twitter.com/...

• @allnick @allnick on x

  This was obvious... only question is why not buy? https://twitter.com/...

• @fed_speak @fed_speak on x

  Do we call it Bookstack or Facestack? https://twitter.com/...

• @hamishmckenzie Hamish McKenzie on x

  Exxon announces solar energy project https://twitter.com/...

• @ireneista Irenes on x

  allow us to strongly suggest, to any writers or journalists who pay attention to us, that if you're switching the bulk of your content creation to a new platform it should NOT be the same oppressive monopoly that has already done so much harm to your industry https://twitter.com/…

• @simonowens Simon Owens on x

  Pretty safe to say at this point that newsletters are the new shiny object that all the platforms are gonna chase. Which I guess is better than every platform rolling out a Stories tool that nobody wants. https://twitter.com/...

• @rmondello Ricky Mondello on x

  fool me once, shame on you https://twitter.com/...

• @ndimichino Nick Dimichino on x

  DONT FUCKING FALL FOR IT THIS TIME https://twitter.com/...

• @arielbogle Ariel Bogle on x

  let me be the first to say: no more newsletters thanks https://twitter.com/...

• @ismh Stephen Hackett on x

  I mean, they saved video journalism... Oh. https://twitter.com/...

• @z_everson Zach Everson on x

  Look forward to when FB suggests the journalists pivot to video-grams https://twitter.com/...

• @kirstinestewart Kirstine Stewart on x

  Revue, that @twitter just bought. Extra extra read all about it... https://twitter.com/...

• @lainnafader Lainna Fader on x

  LOL yeah really good idea for journalists to become even more reliant on Facebook What could go wrong? https://twitter.com/...

• @eiffeltyler Tyler McCall on x

  Oh GOD haven't they done ENOUGH to journalism ?! https://twitter.com/...

• @skamille Camille Fournier on x

  Pack it up folks, it's over. No one wants to read your dumb newsletter anyway. https://twitter.com/...

• @thekendallbaker Kendall Baker on x

  Hard pass https://twitter.com/...

• @minimaxir Max Woolf on x

  @MikeIsaac remember when Facebook released a revamped Notes to take on Medium? Good times.

• @seldo Laurie Voss on x

  I'm sure all the journalists who got fired after their employer went bankrupt Pivoting To Video will flock to this new platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @halophoenix Alan Henry on x

  wow remember what happened the last twelve times Facebook had a plan for helping journalists and a plan to help people find relevant news to them? i can't imagine what could possibly go wrong https://twitter.com/...

• @morninggloria @morninggloria on x

  @MikeIsaac No thanks

• @sdw Sebastiaan de With on x

  @MikeIsaac I wonder when we'll start just naming it: Facebook is copying. It's not ‘Facebook is building X’. Facebook is copying existing products, which is the majority of their product strategy and activity. Often down to the design minutiae.

• @mgsiegler M.G. Siegler on x

  Some may also recall back in the Middle Ages when Facebook was going to reinvent email itself. That worked as well as most of Facebook's non-acquired efforts... https://twitter.com/...

• @robpegoraro Rob Pegoraro on x

  Absolutely. Goddamn. Not. Indie writers and journalists, ask over-40 news types if they still feel great about the time and resources their newsrooms sank into social-reader apps, pivoting to video, and Instant Articles. Then duck. https://twitter.com/...

• @samebrewster Samuel Brewster on x

  $FB why am I the only one that thinks FB has morals and wants to help the little guy? Long FB. Long Zuck. https://twitter.com/...

• @tedstein Homestead Ted on x

  Be sure to handover your e-mail list to Facebook. No way that'll go bad for you. In no way Facebook will just discontinue this in a year or so. Like they did Notes. Remember Notes? No? Exactly. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffhauser Jeff Hauser on x

  Facebook is inventing.... Substack! Very Never-th Century to think the route to riches is actually inventing stuff yourself. Facebook was one of dozens of similar networks... and hundreds of acquisitions & oodles of misbehavior later, Myanmar had a genocide & the USA got Trump. h…

• @bradesposito Brad on x

  Already thinkin about the casualties of the pivot to newsletters https://twitter.com/...

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  pivot to newsletters https://twitter.com/...

• @allen Allen Gannett on x

  FWIW: I've been a beta tester of @LinkedIn's newsletter product and it's *really* good. https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  👀 https://twitter.com/...

• @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x

  Facebook playing freebird https://twitter.com/...

• @rafat @rafat on x

  Because all their other news/publishing focused products have been such big hits with media folks.... https://twitter.com/...

• @laurengoode Lauren Masks Are Goode on x

  “Mr. Zuckerberg noticed the growing trend of independent journalists monetizing their work through newsletter services, and urged the team to make the project a priority.” 🤔 https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mobute @mobute on x

  We destroyed your employers through fraud and now want a percentage of your desperation. https://twitter.com/...

• @kimmaicutler Kim-Mai Cutler on x

  PIVOT TO VIDEO. https://twitter.com/...

• @athertonkd Kelsey D. Atherton on x

  now expecting Facebook to pivot to day trading in three months https://twitter.com/...

• @brandyljensen Brandy Jensen on x

  @MikeIsaac hm no thank you

• @daveleeft Dave Lee on x

  The innovators at Facebook strike again https://twitter.com/...