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The Verge’s favorite social networks

Rows of icons from social media companies: Threads, Facebook, X, Discord, Tumblr, Bluesky, and the Washington Trails Association
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

Social networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram.

We were curious as to where our staff members were going for their social networking fix these days — or whether they had given up on it altogether. Here are some of their answers.


I just don’t think any single platform is going to be the one-stop shop that Twitter once was

Jay Peters, news editor

I primarily use microblogging social networks, and I bounce between many of them because 1) I need to for my job and 2) because none has really…

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