As the first person to reach one million followers on the social media platform Bluesky, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said it’s not difficult to see why tens of thousands of people have stopped using X, the platform that was formerly known as Twitter.
The Hill claims that the only account with more followers than Ocasio-Cortez’s is Bluesky’s official account.
In the two years since Elon Musk’s controversial acquisition, Bluesky has steadily shifted away from X, which is reflected in its growing popularity.
The reasons given by some departing Twitter users include the rise in hate speech, the blocking of traffic to some news outlets, and Musk’s endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump. Ocasio-Cortez voiced her own opinions on Monday.
According to her message, people are abandoning Twitter because it’s no longer enjoyable and nobody is forced to utilize a network they don’t like. It’s not too difficult.
Before Ocasio-Cortez sent a message a few days after the presidential election, her Bluesky account had been dormant for a year.
On November 11, she wrote, “Good God, it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings.”
Initially supported by Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, Bluesky launched as an invite-only site in 2023 that mimicked many of X’s features.
The app had almost 8 million users in September. With over a million new users added in the week after the election, it now boasts 24 million users.
Bluesky has been accused of being an echo chamber because it has positioned itself as a liberal alternative to X.
Regarding his decision to stay on X, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said, “I don’t think that the answer for progressives is to disengage.” The premise is that the truth eventually surfaces in a marketplace of ideas.
Citing Musk’s influence on the toxic media platform and denouncing the website for fostering bigotry and far-right conspiracy theories, The Guardian told its readers last month that it would no longer post anything from its official X accounts.
This year, the day after the election saw the highest number of visitors to X, according to Similarweb, a website traffic measurement tool. However, more than 115,000 US users deleted their accounts on the network that same day, marking the most account deactivations since Musk took over.
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