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Company type | Private |
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Industry | internet, social media |
Founded | November 2022 |
Founder | Sarah Oh and Gabor Cselle |
Defunct | November 1, 2023 |
Website |
pebble pebble |
Pebble (formerly T2) was an American social media platform founded by former Twitter employees Sarah Oh and Gabor Cselle. [1] [2] [3] It provided an authenticated network where users could make posts and interact in communities before shutting down on 1 November 2023. [1] [4]
One day before the shutdown, Cselle launched a Mastodon instance of the same name. It closely resembles the look and feel of the old site. [5]
Prior to founding T2, Cselle oversaw the incubation of new consumer products in Google’s since-shuttered Area 120 incubator. [6] Cselle had also been a Group Product Manager at Twitter from 2014 to 2016, [7] [8] where he worked on the consumer product, and relaunched Twitter’s logged-out homepage [9] and mobile trends. [10] Sarah Oh had previously worked as an executive in Trust and Safety at Twitter and Facebook. [1] [11] On the day Oh was laid off from twitter, Cselle called her to offer his condolences, and to offer Oh a position at T2 to aid in creating a new social media platform. [12]
Cselle announced the development of T2 in November 2022. [13] [14]
In early 2023, T2 hired former Discord Senior Director of Engineering Michael Greer as its chief technology officer. [15]
On 15 September 2023, the platform was rebranded as Pebble. [16]
On 24 October 2023, the platform announced its shutdown on 1 November 2023, approximately one year since it started. [4]
On 30 October 2023, Cselle launched the mastodon-instance pebble.social. [17]
Pebble is one of several social media platforms conceived as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter) after its takeover by Elon Musk. [18] [19] [20] The platform allows 280 characters on user posts. [13] [11] Cselle has expressed a desire to keep the platform as similar to the original Twitter platform as possible. [21] [22] [12] It also emphasizes security and safety features such as user authentication. [11] [18]
Pebble's moderation is planned to make use of both human review and artificial intelligence features. [15]
On 25 April 2023, the platform's invite system launched, allowing its current community of around 1,000 users to invite their friends to the service instead of requiring users to join a waitlist. Each member of the platform has been allowed up to 5 invites with the ability to request more invites if required. Currently, the platform is a web-based app only. [15]
Pebble offers checkmark verification, similar to X. Verification is done through Persona and a $5 charge is invoiced to offset the cost of verification. Unlike rival X Blue, the payment is one-time.
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | internet, social media |
Founded | November 2022 |
Founder | Sarah Oh and Gabor Cselle |
Defunct | November 1, 2023 |
Website |
pebble pebble |
Pebble (formerly T2) was an American social media platform founded by former Twitter employees Sarah Oh and Gabor Cselle. [1] [2] [3] It provided an authenticated network where users could make posts and interact in communities before shutting down on 1 November 2023. [1] [4]
One day before the shutdown, Cselle launched a Mastodon instance of the same name. It closely resembles the look and feel of the old site. [5]
Prior to founding T2, Cselle oversaw the incubation of new consumer products in Google’s since-shuttered Area 120 incubator. [6] Cselle had also been a Group Product Manager at Twitter from 2014 to 2016, [7] [8] where he worked on the consumer product, and relaunched Twitter’s logged-out homepage [9] and mobile trends. [10] Sarah Oh had previously worked as an executive in Trust and Safety at Twitter and Facebook. [1] [11] On the day Oh was laid off from twitter, Cselle called her to offer his condolences, and to offer Oh a position at T2 to aid in creating a new social media platform. [12]
Cselle announced the development of T2 in November 2022. [13] [14]
In early 2023, T2 hired former Discord Senior Director of Engineering Michael Greer as its chief technology officer. [15]
On 15 September 2023, the platform was rebranded as Pebble. [16]
On 24 October 2023, the platform announced its shutdown on 1 November 2023, approximately one year since it started. [4]
On 30 October 2023, Cselle launched the mastodon-instance pebble.social. [17]
Pebble is one of several social media platforms conceived as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter) after its takeover by Elon Musk. [18] [19] [20] The platform allows 280 characters on user posts. [13] [11] Cselle has expressed a desire to keep the platform as similar to the original Twitter platform as possible. [21] [22] [12] It also emphasizes security and safety features such as user authentication. [11] [18]
Pebble's moderation is planned to make use of both human review and artificial intelligence features. [15]
On 25 April 2023, the platform's invite system launched, allowing its current community of around 1,000 users to invite their friends to the service instead of requiring users to join a waitlist. Each member of the platform has been allowed up to 5 invites with the ability to request more invites if required. Currently, the platform is a web-based app only. [15]
Pebble offers checkmark verification, similar to X. Verification is done through Persona and a $5 charge is invoiced to offset the cost of verification. Unlike rival X Blue, the payment is one-time.