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As we approach the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now known as X, it seems one of the many alternatives to pop up in the wake of the acquisition has thrown in the towel.
Pebble, which recently underwent its own name change from its previous moniker T2, has announced that it will be shutting down on November 1. The platform is the first of the many Twitter alternatives to launch after Musk to close down.
According to Pebble, it appears that its investors don’t believe the platform will be the Twitter alternative of choice for users looking for a similar Musk-free social media platform.
Originally founded as T2, the social media platform was developed by two former Twitter employees, Gabor Cselle and Sarah Oh. Cselle left Twitter in 2016, long before Musk came along.
Bluesky, Threads, and Spill makeup just a handful of the many Twitter alternatives to launch to serve users looking to escape Musk’s platform. The space is so crowded that even Threads, an app created by Meta and heavily tied to Instagram, has failed to stand out and make an impact in the space so far.
As of publication time, BlueSky currently has more than 1.7 million users. Last month, at the time of its name change, Pebble had just around 15,000 users.
