If we go back to when we first monitored Twitter in 2011, when we all had bright eyes, clear skin and could still process time, the nascent #AcademicTwitter audience tweeted research 18k times in June 2011. Twitter was already 6 yrs old at the time and had 100m users.
Bluesky JUST arrived.
Bluesky JUST arrived.
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Public Bluesky is only "February 2024 years old" and has 395k.
1) A microblog format is already recognisable to new users
2) Communities are arriving fully-formed from elsewhere. These groups formed on Twitter and beyond.
3) Users are in motivated migration from other platforms.
And it shows.
See this: https://bsky.app/profile/altmetric.com/post/3lbqtkvhfgc2y
Here links can be freely shared without being drowned out or de-emphasized
Bluesky isn't a new station on the route. It's a new set of tracks.
See this: https://bsky.app/profile/alt...
Here links can be freely shared without being drowned out or de-emphasized”
You skipped to this didn't you? Yeah you did.
We have adopted the same scoring mechanisms for Bluesky posts as for X/Twitter. Original posts are 1 point, reposts are 0.85, and while we capture all posts, we cap the score after 200 reposts of an original post.
These augment the score as they do in other Altmetric attention sources already.
I also was able to reconnect with some of my favorite accounts and it was only then I realized nearly all of them had been either deplatformed or shadow banned at the bad place.
I hope it will stay that way.