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Substack now sends emails when you get new subscribers from notes. Overall I’ve found notes to be highly authentic and engaging, especially yours. Early days but a promising new platform for high quality discourse!

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Thanks for sharing. I'm interested to know if the subscriber growth from Notes (which I experienced, too) is a halo effect from it being a new community or if it's a longterm opportunity for growth. I'm keeping an eye on it!

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Apr 21, 2023Liked by Scott Britton

Interesting data. Thank you for sharing.

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Now that we cannot auto post to Twitter, adding that to Notes would be great. A preview of an article you’ve written here with a link back. Assume that’s in the works.

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Thanks so much for taking on this experiment and then sharing it. This is encouraging information for me.

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Awesome, thank you for sharing! I'm relatively new to Substack and only have >100 subscribers. I'm curious about how to manage the potential firehose scenario of subscribing to tons of Substacks. How do you manage the potential deluge to your inbox? I guess instead of really reading each newsletter, you'd just have to do more skimming/picking and choosing?

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I mean you said it right here: "My Substack following is also much bigger than my Twitter following which might account for the increased engagement." So I think this accounts for increased likes and replies, but that increase in subscriptions is hard to ignore. I feel like the novelty does have a lot to do with that, so like you said, it will be interesting to watch over a longer term.

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