Twitter/X Alternative Post News To Shut Down Soon

The Verge reports:

Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”

The Andreessen Horowitz-backed platform launched in a closed beta in November 2022, but now it’s set to shutter “within the next few weeks.”

The platform eventually rolled out a mobile app and later launched a real-time notification system, with plans for more features in the future. However, the cost of keeping the platform running seems to have outweighed user activity.

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Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down https://t.co/NmPL6aFvIu

— The Verge (@verge) April 19, 2024