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A Brazilian court ’s decision to ban X ( formerly Twitter ) seems to be benefiting its competition , particularly Bluesky .
The microblogging platform harbinger previous Friday that it wasseeing “ all - time - highs for activity”with500,000 Modern users joiningin the old two day . It ’s alsonumber one on the free iPhone app chartin Brazil today , rank just forrader of Meta ’s thread at number two .
note the rankings , Bluesky CEO Jay Graber wrote , “ sound job Brazil , you made the right pick . ”
That growth is specially impressive for a program that onlyfully opened to the public in Februaryand winkingly acknowledge its little size of it ( specially compared to rivals X and Threads ) by draw itself as“the scant king of societal apps . ”The companysaysit had more than 6 million users as of May 2024 .
Bluesky was first announced in 2019 as a Twitter - back up opening to build an open , decentralised societal communications protocol . It has since become an independent public benefit pot , withTwitter founder Jack Dorsey leaving the boardearlier this twelvemonth .
Elon Musk ’s X , meanwhile , has been engagedin an escalating legal fightwith Brazil ’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the company ’s refusal to block sure accounts as part of a broad crackdown on what Moraes say is election disinformation .
X said earlier this month that it wouldshut down operations in Brazil , with Moraes then monish the caller that it would be ban if it did not name a legal illustration in the country . Hefollowed through on Friday , and also imperil fines against user who try out to circumvent the prohibition by using a VPN .
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As the ban approached , Brazil ’s prexy Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the face of it call farewell to his hug drug followers bylinking to his other social medium accounts — starting with Bluesky .
