Only far-woke twats have left, so who cares?
shareWhat's cute is they think someone's going to miss them. Most folks didn't even know they were there.
shareSo Musk bought Twitter as some sort of tax write-off, but that only worked if he drove it into the ground? https://fortune.com/2024/09/30/x-value-drops-fidelity-investment-elon-musk-twitter-buyout/
shareSports media’s migration from X to Bluesky has accelerated post-election
https://awfulannouncing.com/twitter/sports-media-social-migration-x-bluesky-threads.html
The excitement there is palpable. The app went from having a little over 6 million users to 15 million in the last 90 days and hit number one in the iOS App Store this week. That’s a far cry from the 335 million active users on X, but according to Similarweb, 115,000 US-based web visitors deactivated their X accounts after Election Day and that company’s user base and appeal are in decline.share
“The current owner of Twitter’s politics aside, his role in the recent election aside, the ways he has changed the platform aside, I think Twitter peaked probably 5-10 years ago, period,” The Ringer’s Howard Beck said on the Sports Media with Richard Deitsch podcast this week.
Beck has been on Bluesky for a while but was part of that app’s welcoming committee this week, especially for the many of his fellow sports media members who finally showed up.
Those new arrivals run the gamut, from ESPN’s Mina Kimes, Sarah Spain, and Benjamin Solak to Meadowlark Media’s Pablo Torre to FS1’s Rachel Nichols to The Athletic’s Nate Tice to The Ringer’s Danny Kelly. The sports media influx seemed to touch every major sports outlet and organization.
To be fair, Meta’s Threads has also been seeing a recent uptick in users and has a sizable advantage over Bluesky (over 200 million users). However, Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone also has a reputation for being the place where brands and your parents hang out. As Jamelle Boiue might say, Threads just doesn’t have the juice.
And another refugee flies that friendly Bluesky.
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