HACKER Q&A
📣 Vervious

Twitter Competitors?


Aside from Mastodon, are there alternative platforms to twitter? Is anyone building one? In particular, with:

  1) Blue checkmarks for real people
  2) Enough community traction with people I want to follow
  3) Enough moderation to limit fake accounts
I'm beginning to think that Twitter will still have a great product even post-takeover. As long as they don't get rid of verification and have decent uptime, for lack of a competitor, I think the company will survive. Points (1) and (2) above make Twitter incredibly useful.

I'm also worried that this might reduce the value of software engineers across the industry, if Twitter succeeds despite longer hours with worse compensation. If 9-9-6 culture works in Silicon Valley, would everyone else follow suit?

  👤 matai_kolila Accepted Answer ✓
I bet if you never thought about Twitter again, you'd be just fine.

There is no 9-9-6 culture shift, there is no value shift in software engineers across the country, there is no need to build a Twitter competitor, none of this actually matters.

👤 Bubble_Pop_22
Twitter competitors are not other social media platforms, they are reality shows, for Twitter is 90% nade up of people dunking on each other, backstabbing and getting revenge. It attracts narcissist at every level ranging from people having millions of followers down to those who hangon to their 10k. Nobody uses Twitter to catch up with their friends or communicate.

It's the reason why the platform has failed to make money in the first place. If you add the character limit to what I said above, you get the worst possible format and environment for pushing commerce, which is the way these big platforms finance themselves.

People are constantly in fight or flight when they use Twitter, it's the opposite for Facebook, Instagram and now TikTok. Those are environments crafted to lubricate and push commerce/branding and it shows.

👤 bobkazamakis
one planned but no solution for fakes; problem is NP hard.
👤 miguelmichelson
why not reddit?