Over a year ago, I wrote a short post on Tweetr and left the platform. Read more about the article here. With no real alternative, I refrained from this part of Social Media and concentrated on others. Now I’m back, but not on Tweetr!

After a year without me tweeting, a viable alternative did finally surface in the form of the BlueSky mobile app. BlueSky looks like Tweeter used to look and offers similar functionality. But here without the downsides Tweetr developed. For one, BlueSky offers proper moderation and a timeline that makes sense. It is add-free (for now) and free of use.

In other words: I’m now a happy camper at BlueSky! You can find me here. If you want to join, you can sign up here.

Notably, all things I suspected would happen to Twitter, see 4-point list below, did indeed happen. The final blow was the 2024 USA election where Tweetr owner musk became active in ‘politics‘ supporting the trump MAGA cult.

My predictions from 2023 (see full article):

• It will see a significant drop in subscribers
  >> After the 2024 elections, a significant number of Tweetr users left the platform and moved over to BlueSky
• The platform will tangent the reputation of the truth social app from former failed prez trump (small t intentionally)
  >>The most recent content is steered heavily towards trump and MAGA-inspired views and content
• Add buying customers will leave the platform
  >>Given the above, this is unavoidable
• The market value will further decrease
  >>The TWTR stock price has fluxed, but overall more down than up and with quite a few very lows. However, I anticipate a further drop in value. Let’s reevaluate in a year…

 

Paul
November 2024