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Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
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Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year.

Bluesky saw a total of 53,585 new signups by the end of Tuesday, September 19. The new users gained in that single day make up 5 percent of the platform's entire user base of 1,125,499 total accounts.

The new user signups are tracked via the third-party website "Bluesky Stats." Looking over Bluesky signup numbers on the tracker for the past month, it appears that the platform usually sees from 10,000 to 20,000 new signups per day. Bluesky has doubled its usual daily new user numbers already, with many more hours left in the day still to go.

It's impossible to know whether Musk's comments about charging users to post on X really played a role in this, but it almost certainly had some effect.

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree but I don't understand why. What motivated him to sink 1/4th of his net worth into Twitter then kill it?

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Knowing this nutter he's probably doing it so people can't talk about the crappy Tesla QC.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

  1. The jet tracker

  2. Twitter is a huge place where leftists organize

  3. Probably wants to pull a reddit and push Trump

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. I wouldn't say that. It was filled with far-right and some people who like others to suffer and bring to suicide indie game developers.
[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

It's also used by fascists but there have been a lot of genuine leftist organizing going down deep in the cracks of that hellsite.