There have been many Twitter-clones that have emerged over the past few years. There’s been Koornk, and German clone Duduku. Yahoo rolled out its microblogging service, Yahoo Meme, a few months ago in ...

The billionaire social media smackdown is about to get real. Before Meta's free text conversation-focused app launched late Wednesday, we had a chance to try it and quiz its makers. We found Meta has ...

Instagram is reportedly working on a Twitter clone. The app is due to launch this summer. Many platforms tried to challenge Twitter but failed miserably. The latest platforms claimed to be a Twitter ...

Mastodon, Spill, BlueSky — the list of Twitter alternatives continues to grow as Elon Musk’s chaotic reign drives users to explore their options. Now comes the big one, from the company with the ...

One of the first patterns my clone figured out was Twitter handles. @-symbols followed by names. Some were my actual friends. Most were handles it made up, like "radiatorboard" and "filpraphan" and ...

The company is transparent when it comes to the reasoning behind the closure, saying “we were not growing quickly enough for investors to believe that we will break out.” Pebble also noted the crowded ...

Sure, Bluesky is a fun app that looks like early Twitter. But its bigger vision of decentralized social networking is about to be put to the test. The moment Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter became ...

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen ...

Look-alike microblogging service launches a day after Twitter rolls out its own photo-sharing service. Could revenge be a factor? Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...