Twitter continues to shrink in the number of users and in the reduction in the amount of information being posted daily. All this apparently is caused by the actions of the new owner, Elon Musk.

Now a new web site has appeared that plans to be a Twitter alternative. 

T2 is led by former Twitter employees who want to recreate Twitter’s “public square.”

The site isn’t available to the general public just yet but the developers hope it will become available within a few days. T2 is part of a growing crop of Twitter alternatives that have sprung up in the wake of Musk’s takeover. The platform is smaller than some more established rivals, like Mastodon, but is intent on recreating the “public square” associated with the pre-Musk Twitter. In fact, founder Gabor Cselle has been pretty clear that he intends to create “a pretty straightforward copy of Twitter with some simplifications” rather than an entirely new experience.

For now, users only have a couple days to take advantage of the program, since legacy verifications are set to disappear from Twitter on April 1st. But the company has a plan to offer verification via other means once Twitter’s legacy checks go away. (T2’s form-based verification won’t work for those who paid for the new, Twitter Blue-enabled check.)

Along with the new verification features, T2 is also announcing a couple other milestones. The company has hired a former Discord exec as its new CTO, and is launching a much-needed redesign that will look familiar to Twitter users.

Stay tuned...