Bracing for a Twitter shutdown - or are you just ready to log off? Some Twitter users are looking into alternatives like Mastodon, Post, Discord - or maybe dusting off their old Tumblr accounts.
Users began fretting about the end of Twitter as soon as Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.63% CEO Elon Musk announced plans to purchase the service earlier this year, when he teased a more lax approach to content moderation. But many Twitter users have been bracing to say goodbye with more urgency over the last several days, after Musk followed up mass layoffs by asking remaining employees to either consent to long hours or take severance pay.
Twitter, which is said to have largely disbanded its press team, didn’t immediately respond to a MarketWatch request for comment on the number of employees that chose the severance package.The problem is that Twitter, which had more 237 million monetizable daily active users as of the June quarter, isn’t easy to replace. Yes, there are other big platforms where people can go to connect online, including Facebook and Instagram, both owned by Meta Platforms Inc. META, +0.
CounterSocial This platform bills itself as one that disallows trolls, abuse, ads, fake news and “foreign influence ops,” and says it has more than 63 million visitors. One interesting feature of CounterSocial is that it monitors emergency radio traffic, and says that it can provide updates and chatter “from the ground when a major incident occurs long before traditional media catch on.
Parler Often described as a conservative social-media app, Parler says its platform is social media “the way it was intended,” pointing to how it’s “built upon a foundation of respect for privacy and personal data, free speech, free markets, and ethical, transparent corporate policy.” Ye, the musical artist formerly known as Kanye West, reportedly agreed to acquire Parler last month.
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