MeWe ‘Anti-Facebook’ Social Network Adds 2.5 Million New Members In One Week

Recently, social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have moved further and further away.

Users are fed up with the relentless breaches of privacy, surveillance capitalism, political bias, targeting and manipulation of news feeds by these companies.

And other social media platforms are taking advantage of this tidal wave. Los Angeles-based social network MeWe, touted as the ad-free future of social media, is currently the # 1 downloaded social app in the Google Play Store and the # 3 downloaded app among all apps in the store. . .

The privacy-focused “anti-Facebook” 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 in each of the past three years.

The platform currently has 15.5 million members, 50% of which are outside North America.

MeWe is now translated into 20 languages ​​and is currently the # 1 social app in Hong Kong.

The company says its membership grows frequently – as people around the world seek out a social network that respects them as customers to be delighted, and not with “data to share, target or sell.”

MeWe claims to be the new mainstream social network with the features people love and no ads, no targeting, and no feed manipulation.

MeWe is the most downloaded social app and # 3 in the list of most downloaded apps as of January 15, 2021.

It has been overthrown by the WhatsApp Signal and Telegram alternatives, which benefit from the hubbub over WhatsApp data privacy changes.

Users are disappointed with the collection of data from platforms such as Facebook. MeWe gives users full control over their data as well as privacy, no advertising, no targeting, no facial recognition, no data mining, and no feed manipulation.

The main stream can get a bit overwhelming at times, but you quickly learn to focus on the information you want to see.

I believe the platform will continue to grow as more and more users enjoy the freedom of flow and look and feel without ads.

MeWe Premium subscriptions will also see steady growth throughout 2021 and its business pages ($ 1.99 per month) will be able to compete effectively in a decidedly unencumbered market.

MeWe’s challenge will certainly be to keep track of the hardware needed to evolve the platform to cope with this explosion of growth.

Hopefully its investors have foreseen this and that there is plenty of room to deal with the tidal flow of new users adopting the platform.

Newer users of the platform may not remember the Twitter Fail Whale webpage, which appeared when the platform was struggling to scale (typically at 8 a.m. PT when users were logging in to find out what happened during the night).

We will need to ensure that it seamlessly integrates the scalable infrastructure as its membership continues to grow.

May this continue for a long time, me. I love what I see so far. An ad-free social media platform, with the ability to pay for additional features, will surely come to dominate the ad-riddled freemium model that we’ve come to hate.