7 Best Twitter Alternatives if You Plan on Leaving – Yahoo

Twitter faces changes – and exits – by the minute in the hands of new owner Elon Musk, who purchased the social media site for $44 billion.It’s not the first time the bird app has switched features up, though. Twitter has seen its share of comings and goings before Musk muddied the waters further. It attempted, for instance, to popularize a story feature similar to that of Snapchat and Instagram through users’ profile icons. Those were called Fleets. Then, Twitter adopted Instagram’s close friends story feature, repackaging the function as the Twitter Circle, where Tweets can be set for viewing only by the user’s selected group of “closest” follower friends.Also Read: Twitter Suspends ‘Blue,’ Reinstates ‘Official’ Label as Fake Accounts SurgeAnd Twitter has faced competition before from various platforms sparked specifically by political leanings — such as former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social and Jason Miller’s Gettr, the latter of which was billed as “The Marketplace of Ideas.” Kanye West made a bid to purchase Parler, a more conservative-minded outlet owned by Candace Owens’ husband George Farmer. Rumble, backed by Peter Thiel as well as “Hillbilly Elegy” author and senator J.D. Vance, has surged in popularity amongst those searching for
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