With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter

Jayden Nelson of Canada celebrates 2-0 during the International Friendly lucifer betwixt Canada v Uzbekistan astatine the Commonwealth Stadium connected June 1, 2026, successful Edmonton Canada. | Photo by Dale MacMillan/Soccrates/Getty Images

Three years ago, erstwhile the women's World Cup kicked disconnected successful Australia and New Zealand, my societal feeds were successful a unusual place. Twitter had conscionable transformed into X, newcomer Threads was seemingly ascendant, and places similar Bluesky had yet to garner overmuch momentum. It near maine with an odd, and admittedly silly, dilemma: I had obscurity bully to station dumb jokes during games. And now, arsenic the adjacent World Cup is acceptable to statesman crossed Canada, the US, and Mexico, not overmuch has changed.

There were a batch of problems with Twitter adjacent erstwhile it was astatine its astir popular, but it besides introduced a caller benignant of unrecorded acquisition for many. Its real-time quality and immense au …

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