It was founded in 2012 by Andy Bromberg and Tucker Bounds, former spokesperson for the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain.
[1] The app was launched at the beginning of the 2016 election cycle, originally billed as "Twitter for politics."
In June 2017, having burned through their funding and unable to secure further investment, Sidewire ceased operations.
[1] Sideline was curated by political journalists, analysts, candidates, campaign managers, and elected officials.
[4] A partial list of former contributors to the platform This mobile software article is a stub.