The Top 100 Twitter Alternatives, Vol. 10: Twitter Enters Its “Red Alert” Phase

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. I’ve taken it upon myself, in the midst of what experts are variously calling the Twitter Migration or the Digital Diaspora, to curate, analyze, and synthesize an exceedingly large number of reliable major-media reports on the new, emerging, and re-emerging contenders to Twi…