The creation of a new social platform called Spill was announced today by two former employees of the social networking site.
When the platform launches in January, it will be a real-time platform that puts culture first, according to Alphonzo "Phonz" Terrell and DeVaris Brown.
The global head of social and editorial was laid off last month after the takeover of the company by Musk. Brown pivoted in 2020 to create a real-time data service after working on machine learning as a product manager lead.
The app is for culture drivers who frequently set new trends yet get overlooked and under compensated, according to the announcement of the app. We mean Black creators, Queer creators, and a variety of influential voices outside the US.
The founders wanted to create a space to highlight the cultural contributions and influential content creation that Black users often brought to the app, and that's how they came up with the idea.
A cultural force to be reckoned with, Black Twitter is at the center of many viral digital culture moments and real world social movements. The #SayHerName and #BlackLivesMatter were both originated by the unofficial online network.
I was talking to Black female creators and Black queer creators and I was wondering how they made their money. Does any platform support you? Do you like the idea of spill? The man told the tech site.
A feature called "tea parties" where users can gather online or in real life will be included in the Spill app.
It's not a web3 thing, according to the man. Both crediting creators and setting up a model for us to compensate them automatically are possible with the use of the block chain technology. It's really effective if they have a spill that goes global.
Black users have used comedy to mourn the loss of their online community after hate speech and slurs against them increased after the acquisition of the social media site.
"We're going to be more intentional and be more accurate around things that will be deemed offensive because, again, this is our lived experience or learned experience." It will be more accurate to catch things that will detract from the platform that wouldn't lend to creating a safe space for our users and our creators.
The announcement of the app led to 20,000 reservations for handles within a day.
You have no idea how much this means, thanks to the love, feedback, skepticism, and numerous offers of support.
They didn't respond to Insider's requests for comment.
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