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Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down


Post News, a microblogging site that emerged in the days after Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, is shutting down just a year and a half after launching in

Post News, a microblogging site that emerged in the days after Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, is shutting down just a year and a half after launching in beta. He wrote that Post “validated many theories around Micropayments and consumers’ willingness to purchase individual articles” — the platform also allowed users to tip writers for their work. Around the same time that Post sprung up, a number of other Twitter alternatives threw their hat into the ring to capture the population of users who would be dissatisfied with Musk’s ownership decisions.

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