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Bluesky Has Seen A Significant Influx Of Users Now That Twitter Is Banned In Brazil

Posted in Commentary with tags , on August 31, 2024 by itnerd

Adding to the problems related to Elon Musk successfully getting his dying social media platform that used to be known as Twitter banned in Brazil, he now has a new one. Competing social media platform Bluesky is seeing an significant influx of users:

The fact that you are seeing these users joining Bluesky means that Brazilians do not have any loyalty to Twitter. There might be other factors at play here. For example, people or businesses using means such as VPNs to access Twitter could be fined $12,000 CAD. And this ban on Twitter stays in effect until Twitter names a new legal representative and pays the fines that our outstanding for breaking Brazilian law. Based on this Tweet from Elon, that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

Elon is seriously pathetic. There’s simply no other way of putting it. I hope he loses every user in Brazil.