Five alternatives to Twitter in addition to Threads

With Twitter recently declining in popularity, here are some of the alternatives available.

Twitter competitor Threads offers users a place for real-time conversations and has adopted some of Twitter’s features, becoming popular for those looking for a new space.

The app, brought onto the market by Meta (Facebook and Instagram’s parent company), received five million sign-ups in its first four hours.

Spill

Spill’s vision is to be a “visual conversation at the speed of culture”. The site is all about video, GIFs and memes.

Amid chaos over Twitter’s latest changes, Spill gained “hundreds of thousands of new users,” according to CEO Terrell.

Bluesky

Bluesky has been backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. It is very like Twitter but has one main difference. The app runs on a decentralized network, which gives the user more control over how the service is run, content is moderated and data is stored.

Dorsey said it also plans to “build an open community around it, inclusive of companies and organizations, researchers, civil society leaders”.

T2

T2 is a service that has been created by former Twitter and Google employees. It gives users posts with 280-character limits.

T2 co-founder Gabor Cselle sold his previous companies to Twitter and Google before creating T2.

Mastodon

Mastodon was made available before Elon Musk bought Twitter but it grew in popularity after the takeover.

Mastodon is free of ads, was developed by a nonprofit run by Eugen Rochko, and is quite similar to Twitter in that people can follow each other, engage in conversations, and do what they do on Twitter.

Cohost

Cohost launched over a year ago, in June 2022, and offers a text-based social media feed with followers, reposts, likes and comments. It is therefore quite similar to Twitter, but works chronologically, with no ads, trending topics or displayed interactions.