People are moving to this social platform as a Twitter alternative
After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, over 70,000 users signed up for an alternative social media platform.
Since Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform Twitter, many of its users have been looking for an alternative platform to use.
According to The Guardian, many social media users might have found an alternative, as the social media platform Mastodon has seen an influx of more than 70,000 users since Musk completed his purchase of Twitter.
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Mastodon is a six-year-old social media platform founded by German programmer Eugen Rochko.
The social media platform, named after an extinct breed of mammoth, is not controlled by a single corporation, but rather by thousands of computer servers, mostly run by volunteer administrators.
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In a recent 'Toot', Mastodon's version of a 'Tweet', Rochko announced: "We've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users across the network today".
The mammoth-branded social network, Mastodon, is seeing a surge in new signups where users ‘toot.’ Unlike Twitter, the platform is not owned by any one company but is installed on thousands of computer servers, largely run by volunteer administrators https://t.co/p42XZqy2jn pic.twitter.com/wz73y8dNQb
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 8, 2022
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