Unpopular opinion, but ever since Elon Musk took over X, formerly Twitter, a section has been finding its way out of the platform, and some have quit the platform already.
Musk recently sat with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over a virtual meeting streamed on X where the two spoke about multiple things ranging from AI to X’s userbase. Musk might’ve hinted at a “small amount of fee” to tackle bots on the platform. However, this Elon Musk move didn’t seem to age well.
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Bluesky saw a rise in users after this news surfaced over the web. For those unaware, Bluesky is a “decentralized” alternative to X, formerly Twitter. It is backed by one of the known names of Twitter, its co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. However, Jack doesn’t oversee Bluesky the CEO is Jay Graber. Jack Dorsey is an investor and member of the board of directors.
Moreover, Twitter once even funded Bluesky to build a decentralized version of the existing platform, now X. Whether the comment of Elon Musk caused this move, or users decided to give Bluesky a try remains undetermined. But, Bluesky is nearing what it wants.
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Bluesky witnessed its largest surge in new user sign-ups to date, with over 42,000 individuals joining the platform on Tuesday, September 19. This remarkable milestone occurred for the invite-only platform that was introduced earlier this year. Notably, we tracked this using a third-party platform called Bluesky Statistics v0.62.
At the time of writing, Bluesky in total has over 1,163,175 registered users, and Bluesky, wint, Neil Gaiman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and The Washington Post, boasting the highest number of followers.
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