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Bluesky isn’t the ‘new Twitter,’ but its resemblance to the old one is drawing millions of new users

  • Written by Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
imageBluesky is having a moment as millions of people have joined in the wake of the 2024 election.Anna Barclay/Getty Images

What would you say at Twitter’s funeral?

That’s the question my collaborators and I asked over 1,000 people on social media as part of a broader research project on Twitter migration. Responses ranged from the profane...

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