Tired of Twitter? Try These Social Media Alternatives!

Twitter getting a bit musky? There are cleaner options in the cloud.

Its name has become ubiquitous with modern news: Twitter has defined a generation of social connection and on-the-ground reporting the likes of which simply wasn’t available twenty years ago. Granted, it wasn’t available because the lifeblood of small, local reporting networks was already being sucked dry by mega-corporations, but the point stands firm: Twitter offered the world an open, accessible, and powerful mode of conducting the most important work of our society.

The whole Internet used to be dedicated to this. As Tom Eastman, a technologist and writer, posted on Twitter a few years back:

Irony knoweth no limits in the Internet age.

I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.

But now, Twitter is on the way out, having found itself purchased for over 40-billion dollars by the problematic Elon Musk. That’s made a lot of people uncomfortable, and has many considering an exodus from Twitter. Previous issues like this with other social media giants like Facebook have led to boosts for companies like Signal, your best option for secure and…