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5 Social Networks That Are Alternatives to Twitter (Plus, What You Need to Know)

Buffer Social

Ever since Twitter’s ownership changed in late 2022, several apps have sprung up offering to be alternatives with varying degrees of popularity. It’s based on an open-source, “federated” concept, where different servers use the same protocol to speak to each other and share content to one feed.

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Open Source is a feature, not a benefit

The Way of the Web

Open source is a wonderful thing. But reading Matthew Ingram’s post last week about the lack of adoption for an open Twitter alternative highlighted the key reason why so few open source projects become mainstream success stories at the level of WordPress or Firefox.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Launches #FirstTweet, Facebook Paper Teams With TED

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including lots of changes and new features for Facebook and Twitter: Twitter celebrates its 8th birthday with #FirstTweet.

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What is Bluesky Social? Everything Your Brand Needs To Know

Hootsuite

At this point, you’ve likely heard of Bluesky Social, the budding Twitter alternative. It’s one of a few text-based social networks that have cropped up as Twitter, now X , makes the shift to becoming an “everything app” under its new leader, Elon Musk. Bluesky is also an open-source platform. What is Bluesky?

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Web Hosting demystified - II

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Web Hosting demystified – I Market yourself as an individual August 1, 2007.4:55 Jump to Comments Continuing from my last post on Web hosting ( trying to focus a bit on tech. these days … ) My quest for a good web-host landed me at several websites, blogs and discussion forums.

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Cool Web Hosting company

The Marketing Blog

45 pm Web Hosting demystified – I Jump to Comments I’ve been running my blog on wordpress.com which offcourse is a free account currently. The other day I was doing a bit of search (organic search) for a cheap, reliable, quality (wow i.e. quite a bit) web-hosting provider. i have use it to hosting my web qronis.web.id

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