Twitler is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative.

[usonian]

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/16/spill-twitter-alternative/
Designed around creatives and removing racial bias from algorithms, especially Black women, the queer community and many other vibrant communities outside the U.S.

Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell and DeVaris Brown met during orientation on their first day working at Twitter. They didn’t know that just a few years later they’d be building a social media platform of their own.

“We were the only two Black guys in there, and we were like, ‘Hey, we’ll be friends!'” said Terrell, who served as the platform’s global head of Social & Editorial until last month, when he was one of thousands of employees laid off upon Elon Musk’s takeover. Brown was a product manager lead at Twitter working on machine learning, but left Twitter in 2020 to found Meroxa, a Series A startup that makes it easier for companies to build their data pipelines.

“It’s not a web3 thing,” Terrell told TechCrunch. “But the use of blockchain is for both crediting creators and setting up a model for us to compensate them automatically. If they have a spill that goes viral and we monetize it, it’s really effective.” Spill hasn’t decided yet what the revenue share will look like, or what method will be used to track how posts drive ad revenue, but Terrell says that creators will “absolutely get real cash” in U.S. dollars, not cryptocurrency. The blockchain technology is something that lives under the hood in the tech stack, not something that users will be bombarded with.

Like Twitter, Spill will have a live news feed where users can post “spills” (a step up from Mastodon‘s “toots“). They’re called “spill” after the phrase “spill the tea,” and Terrell said that they’re leaning into the teacup motif. Even their website sports a Kermit sipping tea meme (which, by the way, was popularized on Black Twitter). Spill is also building a feature called “tea parties,” where users can host both online and IRL events, then get in-app bonuses to apply to things like boosting their posts. Users can still buy boosted posts, but Terrell says that, “if you’ve been creating and crushing it on Spill, we’re going to give you these things.”

SPILL (alpha January 2023)
https://www.spill-app.com/home

Initially, you will be able to:
• Create, comment, amplify or share a random thought, called a “Spill,” with the public
• Host in-app chat events with your friends both virtually and IRL
• Follow the cultural commentary on things that are happening in the world right now
• Oh, and you automatically get paid if a Spill of yours goes viral 🤑

Ultimately, our goal is to make Spill the de facto platform to discover and discuss culture worldwide.

More at the links.

[marble falls]

1. My McAffee just does not like that site. I'll give it a few weeks before I try again.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. McAfee does not protect that well. Perhaps use Malwarebytes.

[usonian]

3. Yeah, that's odd. I am loaded up with ad-blockers etc. and no problem.

computer, phone ...
All you can do now is join a wait list and claim a handle.

[underthematrix]

4. I've already reserved my handle.

[ShazzieB]

5. I'm working on that now.

Trying to think of a really good handle, which is hard! 🤔

[underthematrix]

6. I just used my Twitter handle

[Ms. Toad]

7. I reserved my handle.

This looks really interesting!