WT: Social

History

2019: Start

In the middle of November, 2019 it became known of start of social network WT: Social founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales. He called the project competing with Facebook and Twitter "a mad experiment".

The service, as well as Wikipedia, will exist on donations of users thanks to what in it there will be no advertizing. Wales is confident in operability of such model as, according to him, the new generation of consumers is ready to pay for "valuable" content on the Internet. For this reason subscriptions in Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times so well are on sale, he specified.

It became known of start of social network WT: Social founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales

One more similarity to Wikipedia is in what people can edit and even to delete other people.

WT: Social earned in October, 2019, and a month later nearly 50 thousand users joined social network. Only several people, including developers and administrators work on the project.

The founder of Wikipedia emphasized that he started social network "from scratch" without the investment attraction. He selected such approach for independent control over expenses.

Wales expects up to 500 million users growth of audience of new social network. According to him, time for new undertakings, free from what he calls "nonsense of a clickbait" came.

People were bothered by all this junk — he said, having added that the news organizations do everything that can, and content problem not in them, and in distribution.

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram lift above in tapes those posts which type more comments or likes. WT: Social in a priority puts new links.

In social network the most different subjects are discussed: from policy and technologies to heavy metal and beekeeping. Is later in WT: Social is going to add the button which will allow users to recommend others qualitative content.^[1]

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