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It ’s beenmore than a yearsince Elon Musk purchase Twitter , yet we ’re still seeing the reverberations of that deal on other societal political program , include the new I that have cropped up since . Spill , a chopine plant by ex - Twitter employees , is close out its first twelvemonth on the market by open up its beta to all users , whether they ’re on iOS or Android .
fall is like the pivotal opposite of X , a platform that continues toalienateuserswithplatformpoliciesthat make the app actively less inclusive . Spill ’s founders — whomet while working at Twitterbecause they see they were the only two Black the great unwashed in their employee orientation — are build a political program that prizes variety from the get - go .
“ On every other political platform , culture drivers — Black and browned folk music , marginalized folk , queer folks — have had to kind of elbow to create infinite , ” said Kenya Parham , Spill ’s VP of community and partnership , in apast conversationwith TechCrunch . “ We ’re start off with them at the front of the line , and we imagine that ’s go to make a really healthy ecosystem . ”
The app look like a cross between Twitter and Tumblr — it ’s a microblogging platform where you follow masses and scroll through your feed , but it ’s more multimedia system - driven . At AfroTech last month , Spill unveiled its “ Tea Party ” feature of speech , which allows for users to have live conversations via sound recording or telecasting ; the first Tea Party was hosted by actress Kerry Washington , in which she opened up about her fresh memoir .
Around hisone - year anniversaryof being lay off from Twitter , Spill CEO Alphonzo Terrell told TechCrunch that the app has amassed around 200,000 user . Spill has raised a total of $ 5 million in pre - seed funding so far , including a late $ 2 million extension led by Collide Capital .
Spill may not be develop as quickly as other Twitter competitors like Bluesky , Mastodon or Threads , but Terrell is n’t disturbed .
“ People are attend for something newfangled , ” Terrelltold TechCrunchlast month . “ I consider things that have really defined , unique note value propositions are going to win over the foresighted term — it might not be like there ’s one victor - take - all . ”
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