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Liberal social media site Bluesky CRASHES as millions flee Twitter
Liberal-leaning social media site Bluesky has crashed as two million new users joined after Twitter owner Elon Musk was named to Donald Trump‘s cabinet.
Developers warned the site was likely to act up on Thursday, though they didn’t single out the massive influx of Twitter refugees as the cause.
Samuel Newman said Bluesky was in read-only mode temporarily ‘because something fell over’ – and once it was restored it was still slow.
‘Today will get interesting! If the site goes down, maybe grab a soda, pet the kitty. We’ll hit it with a wrench as fast as we can,’ his coleague Paul Frazee wrote.
Frazee warned users they could expect posts and links to look like they didn’t work or weren’t posted because the site was loading slowly.
More than a million users signed up to Bluesky since Trump named Musk the co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency on Tuesday.
Trump said that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would ‘dismantle’ the $6.5 trillion federal government by co-leading the ‘Manhattan Project of our time’.
About 2.1 million signed up and the number of active users doubled since November 6, when Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the election to Trump.
Twitter, now branded as X, boasted it attracted more US visitors than ever on the same day, as Trump fans celebrated.
Yet it also saw 115,000 American users deactivate, a record daily high under Musk’s tenure.
Bluesky is almost visually indistinguishable from X, with its logo being a butterfly in an identical shade of blue to the former Twitter bird.
It was originally created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2019 and grew after Musk’s acquisition of the social media giant.
Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, also launced Threads last year, which is far bigger with 15 million new accounts this month alone – as many as the total number of Bluesky users.
Both are seen as having liberal-leaning userbases that can seem like left-wing echo chambers due to algorithms.
Conversely, Twitter lurched to the right since Musk bought it, as those on the left steadily left or stopped using it in favor of Threads or nothing.
Outraged over Musk‘s support and promotion of Trump, record numbers fled the Tesla tycoon’s social media platform, including the singer Lizzo, who jokingly nicknamed the switch to Bluesky ‘the great migration’.
Bluesky has topped the iPhone App store rankings, well ahead of X in 25th place
The Guardian also said it would no longer post on the ‘toxic’ site in the wake of the November 5 result, complaining about how Musk used Twitter’s ‘influence to shape political discourse’.
The left-leaning newpaper’s boycott also cited the ‘often disturbing content’ such as ‘far-right conspiracy theories and racism’.
Bluesky on Wednesday shot to the top spot in the iPhone App Store – ahead of Meta‘s X/Twitter competitor Threads, ChatGPT, and Google.
Meanwhile, X sits 25th in the free app rankings, behind McDonald’s, Facebook, YouTube, Indeed, and Amazon.
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Gov Soludo is a greater supporter of Innoson group but our Office in Anambra was demolished without pre-notification from government— Innoson Group
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) has expressed displeasure over the partial demolition of its Head Office, situated on the Owerri-Nnewi road.
Mr Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, who confirmed the demolition to newsmen, said that there was no pre notification ahead of the demolition which took place on Wednesday.
He claimed that the office perimeter fence, some offices, stair case and the company’s showroom were affected by the partial demolition.
According to him, there was no pre notification ahead of the demolition; it came to us as a surprise.
“We did not know that the building itself was marked for demolition and if it was marked, they should have given us time to relocate.
“The staff were working and they just saw the demolition vehicle demolishing the building while work was going on.
“Some of our staff were trapped in the building, it took the efforts of our other staff to rescue those that were trapped while over 20 vehicles were also trapped.
“A day before the demolition, there was an announcement that there was going to be a demolition and they were going to give one week for the houses that were marked for demolition to relocate.
“The company was not aware that the company was marked for demolition, and even if it was aware.
“There have been a public announcement that all the marked buildings have one week to relocate, but all those things were not considered
“There were other buildings that were close to the head office and marked for demolition were not demolished but they came straight to our building and demolished it, making us to wonder if there was another ulterior motive to it,” he said.
“Gov. Charles Soludo of Anambra has been a great supporter of Innoson Vehicle and Innoson has been a great supporter of the state government.
“But the way and manner that everything happened makes us to wonder if the state government is aware that those handling the demolition have personal vendetta against the company,” he added.
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