WT.Social
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| editorial staff | Jimmy Wales |
| Registration | October 2019 |
| On-line | Ung. 15th November 2019 |
| https://wt.social/ | |
WT.Social is a social network launched in October 2019 by Jimmy Wales , the founder of Wikipedia .
The idea for WT.Social arose from a previous project, the online newspaper Wikitribune . The website was given up on the basis of WordPress and a new self-developed platform under the name WT.Social and under a new domain was put into operation. Wales wrote that he was convinced that the main problem facing commercial news sites was with their advertising funding, which had led them to be targeted towards traffic. He wanted to avoid this. That's why he founded a new social network on which his own messages are created, which are written by the users themselves. You can register there individually, but it is also possible to register entire groups of friends. He put the number of users at the time of the changeover at 400, at the end of January 2020 it was around half a million. The platform is intended to be an alternative to commercial social networks such as Facebook , which are criticized for their inadequate data protection , among other things .
Web links
- Website of WT Social (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jimmy Wales: WikiTribune is moving! In: WikiTribune. October 11, 2019, accessed October 29, 2019 (UK English).
- ^ Jimmy Wales, Orit Kopel: The Internet Broke the News Industry — and Can Fix It, Too. In: Foreign Policy. October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Eva-Maria Weiß: WT: Social: Wikipedia founder founds a social network. In: Heise Online. October 30, 2019, accessed October 30, 2019 .
- ↑ WT.Social: Wikipedia founder has almost 500,000 users in the new online network DerStandard, accessed on January 20, 2020
- ↑ heise online: WT: Social: Wikipedia founder founds social network. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .