In the past months many have moved away from a well know social media company that has been said to be degrading over recent years.
I had never done much on the Twitter other than testing and integrations for coding, and browsing news and accounts. So I thought it interesting that recently an open source alternative of Twitter reached mainstream. Let’s see how popular it is – among some of those accounts that have both an X and Bluesky account:
| Bluesky followers | X/Twitter followers | |
| RATPAC ham radio | 199 | 265 |
| Rons Computer Videos | 4366 | 2684 |
| North West Fusion Group | 347 | 580 (moved on from Twitter to Bluesky) |
| Amateur Radio on the International Space Station | 1551 | 22018 |
| The Oregonian | 19410 | 442808 |
| Oregon Coast Aquarium | 4049 | 9470 |
| Idaho Reports | 1095 | 13033 |
As you can see, some have a similar following and sometimes even more on Bluesky. One would not expect that as Bluesky is a much younger media system. The demographics of membership of any given organization may contribute to different social media use – or disuse, as many have moved away or left stale and unused accounts.
Recently a well known Christian magazine completely moved off of X/Twitter. A UK based internet marketing company has done the same. So have many other businesses, teams, users. It will be interesting to see how the numbers above change in the near future…