Os gringos estão no veneno para o Bluesky ser o novo Twitter

Quando o X saiu do ar no Brasil, no fim de ago.2024, houve uma grande migração de brasileiros para a plataforma – boa parte dos quais continuam ativos. O bloqueio foi notícia em veículos em todo o mundo, mas o destino ficou mais ou menos obscurecido.

Veículos nos EUA e em outros países não estão tão empolgados com uma nova rede social na qual poderiam discutir as notícias do momento.

Mas, por conta da eleição de Donald Trump para a presidência dos EUA, cuja candidatura foi impulsionada pelo dono do X, Elon Musk, houve uma migração em massa de norte-americanos para o Bluesky, fazendo a rede social ganhar mais notoriedade no noticiário (ver gráfico abaixo), bem acima de concorrentes como Threads.

O Bluesky agora tem quase 23 milhões de usuários (em 25.out.2024 eram 13 milhões).

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth

The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

The New York TimesBy

Inside Bluesky’s big growth surge

After adding millions of new users in weeks, the company tells Platformer that it will quadruple the size of its moderation team

PlatformerCasey Newton

Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

Meta-owned Threads started November with 5 times the daily app users of Bluesky. That number is now down to just 1.5.

MashableChance Townsend

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

NatureSmriti Mallapaty

How Bluesky, the Rival of Elon Musk’s X, Is Seizing the Moment

Donald Trump’s US election victory — and Elon Musk’s role in helping to get him elected — has sent some users of Musk’s social networking service X searching for alternatives. Musk has spent months pushing Trump’s agenda to his more than 200 million followers on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, and has been taking a virtual victory lap since Trump’s win. X’s move toward the political right has turned some users away, and one of the key beneficiaries of this social media migration has been

BloombergKurt Wagner

What is Bluesky, the fast-growing social platform welcoming fleeing X users?

Disgruntled X users are once again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before billionaire Elon Musk took it over in 2022.

AP NewsUpdated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]

Bluesky experiences outage as users flock to the platform

The platform said on Thursday evening that one million people had joined it over the previous day.

BBC News