Bluesky which was developed by Twitter in 2019 has become one of the fastest growing apps as users become disenchanted with X in the aftermath of the election.
November 14, 2024 in Pasadena, California. This month the social media network Bluesky , has become one of the fastest growing apps as users deactivate their X account. Twitter /X has made a number of controversial and at times, unpopular, changes to the social media platform over the past two years.
Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion . The following July, Musk renamed it X. Among the other changes included personnel cutbacks, charging a fee for a verification account and relaxing guardrails that had been put in place. Some of these policy changes had alienated many. These include reactivating previously banned accounts, a steady stream of misinformation and content not considered brand safe for advertisers.
Further alienating some X users, Elon Musk had become actively involved in the 2024 Presidential campaign. The multibillionaire’s Super PAC spent a reportedin helping to get Donald Trump elected. On November 12, President-elect Trump announced that Donald Trump announced Elon Musk along with Vivek Ramaswamy would be running the new “Department of Government Efficiency” in his second administration.
Bluesky has a decentralized social media website, enabling users to produce their own servers to store data and develop their own rules instead of the company. In addition, Bluesky allows users to block other users, a one-time popular feature on X which has since been changed by Musk. Similar to X, there is a 256-character limit along with such features as images, videos and re-posting.
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