I posted last month about how I’ve been faring on social media since I left Twitter. That piece included this:
The first thing I noticed was that my BlueSky account was suddenly getting quite a lot of new followers. I now have about 850, still a long way short of the over 7000 I used to have on Twitter, but the level of engagement is far higher.
Well the exodus from Twitter seems to be accelerating and I now have 1.2K followers on BlueSky including more than a few old contacts I left behind on Twitter. The total number of users of BlueSky has now passed 10 million, which led to this message which I received last week.
I’m quite proud of being among the pioneering 1% of Bluesky users. The Open Journal of of Astrophysics is also there among the first 10%:
I hope this message prompts a few more to take the plunge. I’ll also take this opportunity to reiterate my opinion that it is indefensible for my employer, along with most other universities, to maintain a presence on Twitter.
