Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky
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Over the last month, traffic to the site formerly known as Twitter has taken a nosedive as Bluesky continues to bring in more and more users.

Over the past few months, traffic to the site formerly known as Twitter has taken a nosedive as competitors like Bluesky and Threads continue to bring in more and more users.

According to the traffic-estimating service Similarweb, visits to the Elon Musk-owned social network now known as X have plummeted over the past three months.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    183·
    1 day ago

    Mastodon was right there. It’s like people haven’t learned anything from their experience with Twitter.

    • almostdachshundEnglish
      141·
      1 day ago

      Bluesky is far easier to get into if you come from Twitter

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        Yup, you just make an account and you’re there, like everything else they e ever signed up for.

        The fediverse is too obscure for the average person to just jump into from Twitter. You can explain it as simply as you want, as soon as you say words like server and instance, or even abstracts like comparing it to email, they’ll have no fucking idea and their eyes will just glaze over.

        Bluesky is singularly cohesive, one account, one service, like every other account they’ve ever made anywhere else. The people still on sites like Twitter are those that don’t want to learn, they just want to consume.

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Mastodon didn’t allow referer headers, so it was invisible in tracking metrics. People looking to see where their traffic came from would see Bluesky as some percentage, but won’t see mastodon servers at all.

    • TerkErJerbs@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I tried to dig into Masto and I like it, but none of the journos I want to see live updates from are on it. Which is fine for just regular scrolling but for something like the unfolding Luigi Mangione story I wanted up to date information and I didn’t have to slum it on Twitter to get it. Bluesky works for that.

      For normal scrolling Bluesky kinda blows. It’s just millions of brunchlibs screaming into the void with memes they find on Facebook. It’s not that interesting. Still better than Twitter, but not as good as Mastodon.