There has been a growing movement away from social media giants like Facebook and Twitter recently.
Users get fed up with violating privacy violations, surveillance capitalism, political prejudice, targeting and manipulation by these companies.
MeWe
And other social media platforms are taking advantage of this tidal wave. The Los Angeles-based social media network MeWe, considered the ad-free future of social networking, is currently the number 1 downloaded social app in the Google Play Store, and the number 3 app downloaded from all apps in the store. .
The first ‘anti-Facebook’ privacy platform added 2.5 million new members last week.
Since its launch in 2016, it has grown to nine million users in October 2020, doubling its membership over the past three years.
The platform currently sits at 15.5 million members, 50% of whom are outside North America.
MeWe has now been translated into 20 languages and is currently the number 1 social app in Hong Kong.
The company says its membership is growing regularly as people around the world seek a social network that respects them as customers to rejoice, not with ‘data to share, target or sell’.
MeWe claims it’s the new mainstream social network with the features people love and no ads, no target and no news feed manipulation.
As of January 15, 2021, MeWe is the most downloaded social app and number 3 in the list of most downloaded apps.
The alternative Signal and Telegram, which take advantage of the brouhaha about WhatsApp’s data privacy changes, have been knocked out of the top lock.
Users become disillusioned by collecting data from platforms like Facebook. MeWe gives users total control over their data, along with privacy, no ads, no targeting, no face recognition, no data mining and no news feed manipulation.
The main feed can be a little overwhelming at times, but you quickly learn to focus on the information you want to see.
I think the platform will continue to grow as more and more users enjoy the freedom of the feed and the ad-free look and feel.
MeWe Premium subscriptions will also grow steadily during 2021 and its business page ($ 1.99 per month) will be able to compete effectively in a saturated market.
MeWe’s challenge is definitely to keep up with the hardware needed to enlarge the platform to cope with this growth explosion.
Hopefully the investors have planned for this, and there is enough room to handle the tidal stream of new users the platform.
Newer platform users may not remember the Twitter whale webpage, which appeared when the platform scaled (usually at 08:00 PT, as users were logged in to find out what happened overnight).
MeWe will have to ensure that the scalable infrastructure is taken up smoothly as its membership continues to grow
Long may it last, MeWe. I like what I’ve seen so far. An ad-free social media platform, with the option to pay for extra features, will definitely dominate the ad-free freemium model we hate.