The competitor to X, formerly called Twitter, just reached 16 million users this week.
huffpost.com
Bluesky has the edge where Twitter once dominated: news and live events.
slate.com
With one million new accounts added since the U.S. elections, Bluesky has solidified itself as an option for people looking to change their social media service.
nytimes.com
Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.
wired.com
The former Twitter continues its decline under Musk.
mashable.com
His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.
newstatesman.com
Parts of the web are now dominated by bots and junk websites designed to go unread by humans.
abc.net.au
On the first anniversary of its acquisition, the social platform formerly known as Twitter is a revenue-troubled and misinformation-riddled shell of its former self.
thedrum.com
One year after Elon Musk let that sink in, an elegy for the platform that was — and some notes on the one that is poised to succeed it
platformer.news
‘Nothing Musk has done seems to have translated into lasting improvements,’ according to data from Similarweb, which finds US Twitter traffic declined 19% year-over-year.
pcmag.com
Social media is dying after the implosion of Twitter. Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are trying to replace X but are coming up short. Maybe that's OK.
latimes.com
It’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform.
newyorker.com
The zombie platform lives on as X, a disfigured shell of its former self
cnn.com
finance.yahoo.com
The bird may be dead, but Twitter—er, X—is still alive for communities, news, and memes.
wired.com