Considering Departure from X? Explore These 10 Twitter Substitutes Worth Considering

Considering Departure from X? Explore These 10 Twitter Substitutes Worth Considering

In recent times, creatives have been migrating from Twitter due to concerns about misinformation, poor moderation, numerous bots, and AI scraping. Here are some of the top alternatives that prioritize creator control, better moderation policies, and ethical use of AI technologies.

Mastodon

Mastodon, a decentralized social network, promotes community moderation and resists central control. This setup can help limit misinformation and improve moderation quality. It also reduces the risk of AI scraping as it is open-source and less commercially exploited than Twitter.

Creative-Specific Platforms

Platforms that cater specifically to creators, such as Substack for writers, TikTok for trendsetters, Pinterest for visual enthusiasts, and Cara for animators, tend to have clearer policies about AI use in content creation and moderation. These platforms avoid the aggressive data scraping and lack of consent issues that have plagued Twitter, partly due to smaller, more niche user bases.

Cara

Cara is a visual-oriented social media platform that aims to remove AI-generated content and not use images on the platform to train AI models. It supports GIFs and animated GIFs can be displayed directly as covers, making it popular with animators.

Substack

Substack is a platform tailored for creative writers, allowing them to blog, podcast, and earn money via subscribers.

TikTok

TikTok, with over a billion users, is a popular app known for many trends that filter down to other social media platforms.

Pinterest

Pinterest works differently from most social media platforms, as posts are based on existing URLs, pulling in content posted elsewhere on the internet.

Social Media Management Platforms

Social media management platforms like SocialBee and Later Social provide AI-powered scheduling and content assistance but focus on helping creators directly rather than scraping content without permission. These platforms allow creators to publish to many networks, giving users control over where and how their content appears.

SocialBee

SocialBee allows creators to publish to many networks including Mastodon, Reddit, and Telegram, giving users control over where and how their content appears, unlike Twitter’s centralized model.

Later Social

Later Social offers AI tools for captions and hashtags and emphasizes visual content planning suited for creators.

Other Alternatives

Vero

Vero, billed as an Instagram alternative, rejects ads and algorithms and aims to create a genuine community.

Instagram

Instagram, launched in 2010, is a visual-oriented social media platform owned by Facebook-owner Meta, now having well over 2 billion users. It allows images and videos to be posted to a personal feed or as Stories, which last 24 hours.

Bluesky Social and Threads

Bluesky Social is often touted as the new Twitter, and it has 15 million users as of November 2024. Instagram's Threads is a popular alternative to Twitter, launched just weeks before the Twitter rebrand. Threads has 100 million sign-ups in its first week.

Counter Social

Counter Social follows a similar format to Twitter, but claims to have no ads, bots, internet trolls or "foreign influence ops". It has features like Counter Share, Emergency Radio Traffic, and CoSocial conferencing, but the feature that will probably come most in handy for creatives is the COSO groups, which are communities based on users' tastes and preferences.

The Guardian has announced that it will no longer post on Twitter, and big brands have been pulling advertising from Twitter due to the rebrand. Creatives concerned about these issues might consider decentralized networks like Mastodon and management tools such as SocialBee or Later Social, which respect creative control, better curate content, and apply AI as an assistive tool rather than an exploitative scraper.

1. Mastodon, a decentralized social network, offers community moderation and resists central control, reducing the risk of AI scraping.
2. Platforms catering to creators, like Substack, TikTok, Pinterest, and Cara, have clearer AI policies, avoiding issues with data scraping and consent.
3. Cara, a visual-oriented platform, removes AI-generated content and does not use images to train AI models.
4. Substack specializes in blogging and podcasting for creative writers, also allowing them to earn money via subscribers.
5. TikTok, with over a billion users, is known for setting trends on various social media platforms.
6. Pinterest, unlike most social media platforms, creates posts based on existing URLs, pulling content from the internet.
7. Social media management platforms like SocialBee and Later Social provide AI-powered scheduling and content assistance, focusing on helping creators rather than commercial exploitation.
8. SocialBee allows creators to publish to many networks, giving users control over where and how their content appears.
9. Later Social offers AI tools for captions and hashtags, emphasizing visual content planning for creators.
10. Vero, an Instagram alternative, rejects ads and aims to maintain authenticity, attracting creatives with its genuine community features.

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