The Top 100 Twitter Alternatives, Vol. 11: Elon Musk’s Bizarre “Cis” Announcement Launches New Exodus From Twitter

This ongoing Retro series offers a journalistic assessment of how new, emerging, and rediscovered social media platforms are faring in the wake of the gradual collapse of Elon Musk’s Twitter.

Introduction

This ranking is an outgrowth of my work as a curatorial journalist. In the midst of what experts are variously calling the Twitter Migration or the Digital Diaspora, I’ve taken up the task of curating, analyzing, and synthesizing an exceedingly large number of reliable major-media reports on the new, emerging, and re-emerging contenders to T…