If you’ve been listening to the continuing noise around the Elon Musk era of Twitter, you know there’s a whole hullabaloo around checkmarks and verification. The latest celeb to take a stand? None other than Seinfeld’s George Costanza, Mr. Jason Alexander.
Alexander took to, well, Twitter to air his grievances against Twitter. “Twitter has removed my verification,” he said in a tweet with almost 3 million views as of this writing. “I will no longer be posting on this app.” Alexander joins a number of high profile celebrities and organizations that have left the service over being forced to pay $8 a month for promoting something that used to be free.
He left it with a nice missive: “I wish you all well.”
Oh, but that’s not all. Alexander tweeted one more time and shared two other places he can be found: Spoutible and Instagram. He also added “take care all.” Nothing wrong with a little politeness.
If you’re like me, then you’re probably going “what the hell is Spoutible?” Well, it’s a social media site where you can “Stay informed with real-time news and insights from people you know, industry leaders, journalists, and notable figures, all in one convenient place.” Does that clear it up? Not really?
After a little more digging (Googling), it looks like Soutible went live on Feb. 1 and is the “first Black-owned viable competitor to Twitter,” per beta tester Myron Clifton on Medium. How does it work?
“300 characters, and you can embed memes, gifs, and other user’s spouts. I have found myself at first limiting myself until realizing I had burst through 280 and was living my best Spoutible life.”
Can’t wait to “spout” to Alexander.
