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The post-Twitter conversation
The number of Twitter-sceptics seems to grow with each news cycle
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Twitter users have misreported deaths, riots, elections, disasters and just about anything else
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Yet there are many who believe that there is an alternative
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The post-Twitter networksThere are three main social networks that have risen to prominence. All three try to fix something that the developers believe is broken with Twitter. The three networks are:• Menshn• App.net• Branch
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So what do these new platforms look like and what stage are they at?
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MenshnMenshn, created by Conservative MP Louise Mensch and former Labour communications strategist Luke Bozier, was founded for those who wanted to ‘talk on topic’ in a micro-forum.• Users comments on a topic based on a hashtag such
as #uspolitics or #olympics.• Users see what their friends are writing about
individual subjects.• Open to the public.
www.menshn.net
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App.netApp.net is a crowdfunded project currently in development that smashed its $500k fundraising target by over $300k.• App.net aims to offer Twitter without the ads – as
the developers believe it should be.• App.net users will have to pay to user the service, in
an effort to ensure that users come before advertisers.
• App.net is currently in alpha.
www.app.net
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BranchBranch, which has been launched in conjunction with two other web projects, is from the creators of Twitter.• Similar to Menshn’s ‘micro-forum’ concept, but you
can request to join any conversations, not just those from your friends.
• Invite/request-to-join adds topic moderation elements.
• Increases chance of considered thought rather than lazy commenting.
• Currently in invite stage.
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“Complex topics are sometimes best tackled collaboratively”Peter Sigrist
Managing director, 33 Digital, sister agency of Hotwire
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“Forums have barely over the past 10 years, yet they continue to thrive”Josh Miller, the Hotwire interview
co-founder and ceo, Branch
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The post-Twitter conversation• Read an interview with Josh Miller.• Read more about digital PR or tech PR.• Find out more about Hotwire.