Two former Twitter employees, Alphonzo Phonz Terrell and DeVaris Brown announced the creation of a new social platform, Spill, designed as an alternative to the bird app.
Terrell and Brown who were part of the Twitter workforce cutdown by Elon Musk during the mass firing in November with a three months severance package are currently developing a Twitter-like social media platform they are dubbing “Spill.”
Terrell served as the platform’s global head of Social & Editorial, while Brown was a product manager lead at Twitter working on machine learning, but left Twitter in 2020 to found Meroxa, a Series A startup that makes it easier for companies to build their data pipelines.
Both individuals now claimed to have used the severance package from Musk towards developing and promoting s a substitute for the bird app.
They described the app “a real-time conversational platform that puts culture first and act as a haven for Black Twitter artists.” They expect that the platform will launch in about six to eight weeks.
Speaking on the new project in an essay, Terrell disclosed that the Spill app, will use blockchain to compensate users for popular posts and will include a feature called “tea parties” where users can gather online or in real life to connect.
Terrell tweeted in his announcement of the app. “However, the blockchain is used to both credit artists and set up a model for us to automatically compensate them. It works incredibly well if they have a spill that becomes popular and we monetize it.”
Following the announcement of the app, Terrell tweeted that Spill had received 20,000 reservations for handles within 12 hours.
“Thank you for love, the feedback, the skepticism and the numerous offers of support – you have no idea how much this means,” Terrell tweeted
