Twitter competitor Spill launches in beta on iOS – TechCrunch

From a team of ex-Twitter employees, the new social platform Spill launched in an invite-only beta on the App Store. It’s been quite the year for Spill CEO Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell. This time last year, he was global head of social and editorial at Twitter, a company that had not yet been sold to Elon Musk. Since then, he was laid off, started a new company and raised a $2.75 million pre-seed round. Spill is a visual-first, multimedia microblogging app with an interface that looks kind of like Tumblr. When you open the app, you land on a feed, which includes recent posts from people you’re following (or, in the app’s language, “sipping”), as well as algorithmically served posts. From there, you can pull down a top menu, which shows trending posts and hashtags, like #spillionaires ,#zaddiesofspill and #baddiesofspill, which have all emerged as early monikers for the app’s users. From the bottom menu, users can post text, gifs, videos, photos, links and polls. Image Credits: Spill What sets Spill apart from legions of Twitter competitors is its deliberate mission to build for diverse communities from day one rather than as an afterthought. Terrell says that the driving ethos behind
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