Hey everybody Brian here. So it turns out I lied to twice this week. I lied first when I said we were not going to do any more Twitter Elon stories.

But then I also lied when I said there would be no bonus episode this weekend. There is a bonus episode. This is it. It came about because

Chris Messina got in touch with Gabor Shelley, the founder of T2. Social, which is one of the, I don't know, family of Twitter, clone slash Twitter

alternatives that is popping up.

Gabor graciously agreed to talk to us early on a Saturday morning so that we could do this.

We also got Alex Kantruitz, who's in Germany right now to jump on as well.

Alex, you'll remember, is our friend from the Big Technology Podcast.

Basically, what we kick around here is,

specifically what is the T2 project, what are they aiming to do and also just generally in this

moment is this the moment where a Twitter competitor could flourish could

catch fire as it were.

We kick all that stuff around.

Thanks to everybody for answering the Bat

Signal for this emergency episode and enjoy.

Welcome everybody to the tech name ride home experience.

This is a special emergency podcast edition. There is so much shit going on on

Twitter that we could not not talk about it. And I've had my mind kind of worked by

a lot of things that have been happening recently. And for the first time in my

16 years on Twitter I decided to meet my profile and my account private. It's just I

needed a little bit of like a mental health break. I need to step away from it.

I was spending far too much time watching every movement turn.

And Brian Pours from the show also talked about how he's had his own sort of crisis in this moment, like not wanting to cover every moment and yet it's such a big story and so one this might be a little bit about therapy session but also two we have the opportunity to talk to some folks who know a lot about these things and in fact we're super

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