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@MadelynatTonic1 year ago
An app to take over Twitter I feel is unlikely unless Twitter completely goes away. It has consolidated where we express our thoughts and get information from and while it is still a functioning service, I really doubt it will be replaced. That being said, I feel like there was a very small window when Elon first started ruining the platform and people were excited about alternatives, and it looked like Mastodon was the likely landing pad. Unfortunately for them, their product was just too confusing to use. Twitter in its simplicity and ubiquity is here to stay until it takes its final breath and we are all forced to move on.
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Twitter is stumbling. Some ex-employees are launching rivals
Like Twitter, it offers a social feed of posts with 280-character limits.
But the key selling point, according to Oh, is its focus on safety.
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The list of newer entrants in the markets includes apps like T2 and Spill created by former Twitter employees, a startup backed by one of Musk's Twitter investors, and a service from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Something that we've heard a lot from people who are moving over from Twitter, either partially or fully, is that it is just for them a nicer experience overall, said Jae Kaplan, co-founder of Anti Software Software club, the group that develops Cohost, a text-based social media feed similar to Twitter.
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Replacing Twitter, with its robust network of journalists, politicians and entertainers and sizable audience of users obsessed with real-time news, may be a challenge.
While apps like Cohost have seen renewed momentum, their audiences remain a small fraction of the size of Twitter, which had more than 200 million daily active users as of last year.
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By all accounts, there is no platform right now that is able to take on the function of Twitter, and nothing is really prepared for it, said Karen North, a clinical professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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@JamesJalaPayneo1 year ago
I couldn’t agree more @MadelynatTonic - Twitter is baked into our lives. It’s even a tool for journalists which in turn changes the news we view in or off the platform. It’s also interesting how Twitter has a mere 200 million users vs Facebooks billion - that number says a lot about the UX alone. I will admit though, I’m still confused by how to use a lot of the features on Twitter, like Threads and Rooms.
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