Twitter Clone Pebble Is Shutting Down next week. It is hardly surprising. Too many platforms tried to cash in on Twitter’s decline without offering any added benefits. Pebble is one of them, a replication of Twitter, a clone, not an alternative.

Besides Pebble was lacking traction. Unlike Bluesky, which has the benefit of Jack Dorsey’s familiar name and a grand, very en-vogue focus on decentralisation (although it’s still just one server), a community never formed on Pebble. I signed up with Pebble and my only follower was Gregor Cselle who follows everyone on arrival—like Tom from MySpace. It’s a nice touch; but a desperate move to make a dead network feel lively.