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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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[–] drdalek13@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I firmly believe Elon is trying to run Twitter out of relevancy, or business entirely.

[–] eee@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lose $42 billion speed run challenge

[–] uis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Who holds WR in EU%? You know, where endgame is getting wrecked by anti-monopoly agency.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (3 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 11 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[–] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

The lawsuit he was destined to lose. Why do people here so often act like this was his masterplan all along? He fucked around and tried to back out, then Twitter sued him into buying the company. From what I can tell this is just Musk being Musk, reportedly he has surrounded himself with yes-men.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If that were true, the investors who paid him billions for the take over will want his head on a spike.

[–] baked_tea@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you'd know who these investors are, you'd know running twitter to ground is their goal at this point as well

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, but why though? How do you make money when the stock value is falling?

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The theory is they're not trying to make money, but is trying to make it harder to use Twitter for organizing protests or share ideas that threaten their status quo.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting. So are you saying there’s government money behind this?

[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biggest investor is Saudi Arabia.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Ok, so this is just a way to prevent another Arab spring from happening. Seems like a smart move until you realize that people have lots of alternative platforms too. It’s a bit more fragmented, so organizing a demonstration on mastodon probably won’t get that big that fast.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suspect that might have been their intent but they didn't tell Musk. They knew him doing his best would be enough to tank it.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, his ego won't allow him to fail with grace.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The biggest funders are the Saudis, who hate Twitter for the way it allowed communication during The Arab Spring. 42 billion is nothing to them. They want Twitter to die, or be run the way the want it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think his Saudi funders are pleased.

[–] shaolin_shrimp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

As Twitter is a big PR tool for Ukraine he’s again doing Putin a favour.