It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk bought Twitter, but the effects of that deal are still felt on other social platforms, including new ones that have emerged since then. His Spill, a platform founded by a former Twitter employee, concludes his first year on the market by opening a beta version to all users, whether on iOS or Android.
Spill is like the antithesis of X, a platform that continues to alienate users with platform policies that actively reduce the inclusivity of its apps. Spill’s founders realized they were the only two Black people on the workforce, and although they met while working at Twitter, they wanted to build a platform that valued diversity from the beginning. Masu.
“On other platforms, people who promote culture, whether it’s black and brown people, marginalized people, gay people, etc., have had to go to some length to make space,” Spill’s Kenya Parham, vice president of community and partnerships, said in a past conversation with TechCrunch. “We’re starting with them at the forefront, and we think that’s going to create a really healthy ecosystem.”
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The app is like a combination of Twitter and Tumblr, a microblogging platform for following users and scrolling through feeds, but more multimedia-driven. At his AfroTech last month, Spill announced a “Tea Party” feature that allows users to have live conversations via audio or video. The first tea party was hosted by actress Kerry Washington, where she opened up about her new memoir.
A year after he was fired from Twitter, Spill CEO Alphonzo Terrell told TechCrunch that the app had about 200,000 users. Spill has raised a total of $5 million in pre-seed funding to date, including a recent $2 million extension led by Collide Capital.
Spill may not be growing as quickly as other Twitter competitors like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, but Terrell isn’t worried.
“People are looking for something new,” Terrell told TechCrunch last month. “I think the ones with really clear and unique value propositions will win in the long run. It might not be a one-winner-take-all kind of thing.”
Source: techcrunch.com
