Literally anything could replace Twitter at this point and we'd be better off

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Literally anything could replace Twitter at this point and we'd be better off
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I'm sorry, Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), I really am. I've been a user for exactly a decade, and though I've never been a fanatical tweeter, I have been active all these years.*

But right **w the state of Twitter is such that pretty much anything resembling it could replace it. The main requirement of this new service? Just don't be Twitter.*

Case in point: Mastodon (http://mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-network/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial). The open-source, decentralized Twitter clone grew rapidly over the last week; so fast that the main server (https://mastodon.social/about) (at Mastodon, they call this "instance") had to shut down its doors for new users. And it's **t hard to guess where all these users are coming from: If you join one of the other instances right **w, most of the messages you'll see will be sighs of relief from users who finally feel freed from the shackles of Twitter.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/twitter-replaced/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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