Twitter’s defectors and discontents set out in waves, searching for viable alternatives. The first broke in April, when Twitter accepted Musk’s $44-billion bid for the social media company.

While many Twitter users are making a lot of noise about terminating their accounts and heading elsewhere, they’re quickly finding that the alternatives aren’t quite ready for prime time—and ...

The App did struggle with many technical challenges ... seeming to spread further and wider than other conversations about Twitter alternative Mastodon, which never had a surge in interest to ...

Mastodon, a decentralized social network that allows users to make their own private social networks, was presented by many Musk critics as an alternative to Twitter in the initial months of Musk ...

Like many Twitter alternatives, it has a small user base ... on what Kanye's plans for the platform are, and it may be a struggle to keep Parler relevant, or at least as relevant as it's always ...

Unsurprisingly, the uncertainty has inspired many users to explore Twitter alternatives. Among them, Mastodon, a decentralized platform founded in 2016, has emerged as one of the top destinations ...

As a result, many users have begun to search for alternatives and a May 2023 survey from the Pew Research Center found that a quarter of Twitter users said “they are not very or not at all ...

Perhaps it's fate that should Twitter fall, an alternative from its former chief executive will rise to take its place. Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter in 2006 and had multiple stints as CEO ...

This means the app is easier to get started on than other alternatives like Bluesky or Mastodon. Threads’ integration with Instagram makes it ideal for those that use Twitter to keep up to date ...

With Twitter — or X, as Elon Musk would like you to call it — seemingly going downhill faster each day, a number of alternative social-media messaging platforms have risen to try and take its ...