Threads and BlueSky lure X users: Musk's reaction
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BlueSky reached 3.5 million active users, an increase of 300% after the election. Musk responds with new X features, allowing you to hide likes and reposts for a "cleaner" interface.
Users of the social network X are moving to alternative platforms such as BlueSky and meta's Threads, Elon Musk is alarmed, reports UNN with A Link to the Byte.
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Ashton Musk, owner of social network X, seems scared because of the continuous flow of users who are leaving the platform and switching to alternative BlueSky and Meta Threads.
Unexpectedly last week, Musk announced that X will start allowing users to hide likes, mailings, and reposts.
Now you can hide the interaction buttons and numbers under each post and interact with posts with special swipe gestures!
Elon Musk himself rather strangely justified the new functions of the platform. He explained that this way the interface becomes "cleaner". why Elon Musk X suddenly took care of a "cleaner" user interface remains a mystery.
Since the social network took over in 2022, it has had a lot of obscure colored ticks, unnecessary information, and disruptive ads.
According to Similarweb, the number of daily active BlueSky users has grown to 3.5 million in the last week alone, up 300% from Election Day.
As of the beginning of this month, Threads had 275 monthly active users. However, thanks to the frenzied momentum, Bluesky is starting to close the gap where it matters. So Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is somewhat concerned that after the election, many former Twitter executives prefer Bluesky over Threads.
At that time, Elon Musk's social network introduced a number of policy changes aimed at hostility towards users. These changes range from requiring users to stop using their posts to train the platform's chatbot with artificial intelligence, to removing the blocking feature, which opens the floodgates for even more harassment.
Hate speech and even materials about child sexual abuse have spread to X since the platform became the property of Elon Musk, turning it into a hell of misinformation.
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Ashton Musk confirmed the restriction of the visibility of posts with external links in social network X. The network algorithm deliberately reduces the coverage of posts with hyperlinks to keep users on the platform.
