TechSoftwareAppsInstagram is going to be the Twitter killer, but it needs to launch nowElon Musk has turned Twitter into the Titanic, and we need the lifeboats in a hurryWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechSoftwareAppsInstagram is going to be the Twitter killer, but it needs to launch nowElon Musk has turned Twitter into the Titanic, and we need the lifeboats in a hurryWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Elon Musk has turned Twitter into the Titanic, and we need the lifeboats in a hurry
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(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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If Twitter were a boat, it’d be the Titanic – with Musk deliberately crashing into the iceberg to own the libs. But the lifeboats we’ve seen so far don’t seem to be up to the job: despite recent improvements and at leastone great appMastodonstill feels a bit too techy for the average Twitter evacuee, while the Twitter-a-likeBluesky’spolicy of only letting users invite one new person a fortnight means it remains off-limits to most.
But there’s smoke on the horizon, and it’s coming from the most unlikely place: Meta. The HMS Instagram could be the rescue vessel we need.
Smoke on the water
There are tons of reasons to criticise Instagram and its parent, Meta. But one thing I can say about Instagram is that I don’t have to block roughly a quarter of a million people, including actual neo-nazis, to make it usable. I do on Twitter, and I’m still subjected daily to the witless mutterings of clowns who shouldn’t be allowed cutlery, let alone computers.
But for as long as the people I want to hear from and talk to are on Twitter and not on a different, safer social network, I’m stuck with a social network I actively despise and which, as I’m reminded daily, is particularly popular with people who despise me. So right now I’m bobbing around in shark-infested water and I don’t really care too much about who’s throwing me a rope.
But timing matters too. Mastodon missed its moment: when people went to check it out, it wasn’t ready. Bluesky looks like it’ll miss its moment too if it doesn’t open up invitations pretty shortly. If Instagram gets its timing right, it could sail into the sunset while Twitter heads for the ocean floor.
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