I have picked up 27,000 followers in 10 days. At this rate I’ll match and pass my Twitter following, which took me 10 years to build, in under 2 years. I don’t have any analysis or anything to add to that I just think it’s absolutely fucking BONKERS
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SciComm ftw. We were twitter mutuals back when my partners and I launched Scirens. Hoping to build the outreach back out now. Thanks for all you’re doing here. ✨
Glad your numbers are coming in strong.
Does it make sense that those who followed you on Twi-X searched you out here?
And in some way, yr previous Twi-X acct is helping ppl out as their Followers join BlueSky?
good question, not married to it but why not? "skeets" is kinda funny, it meshes with the Bluesky vibe. Also, It doesn't need to mean anything other than "post" here... just more fun.
There are enough people who say, "If someone complains about calling them skeets, I will repost using skeet at least three times" that yeah, Sky Tweets contraction is the main term going forward, I think.
I tend to switch between posts and skeets myself, but I'm a nobody.
I’m up to ⅔ of my Twitter following, but I’ve got out of the habit of posting, so my good stuff can come here now rather than the private Wordle chat I’m in.
I think it is at least in part people who recognize you from Twitter who migrated with you. I keep spotting accounts I recognize and insta-following them
Pretty much the same. I've gotten more engagement on BlueSky with 1.5k followers than I did on Twitter with 14k followers. If it wasn't hateful rhetoric, it wasn't being shared.
And these followers will be far better unless u were actively and consistently curating your follower population. On X I easily blocked at least 75% of new followers for several years because they were obviously troll/bot accounts.
I had 24k on Xtter and in the end about half were zero engagement or bots. I’m happy with 2k real people here. Well, some of them might be bots, but blocking them is much more manageable here.
I think so many people have finally just dropped off the Twt and created accounts here. We are avidly looking for our old follows and then automatically following here. I had both screens open and just searched all the names, then followed everyone I found. So yeah, it’s your old followers here.
I had 28,000 on Twitter for reasons that escape me (my handle never appeared in anything heavily read or linked, unlike Erin), but I’ve doubled followers on Bluesky in the last several days. They feel more real!
Absolutely fucking hilarious when I quit twitter a year and a half ago I said “well I’ll never rebuild my platform but it’ll actually be nice to be a small fish again and I won’t have to be perceived anymore.”
literally what I told myself when I first moved here! I never had quite the platform you did, but I think I had just hit 20k at my very peak. I was looking forward to a quiet existence and now I'm back to 1k already 😭
You taught me what spatchcocking was over on the other place (or was it here in the early days?) Anyways, I've yet to spatchcock a chicken but when I do, it'll be you I'm thanking in my head!
haha i had 40 followers and a private account and now when i see people following me i’m like oh my god i don’t want to block you but also i never wanted this many followers (but also also if i want to sell art it would be helpful to, aaaghh)… so i feel this on a veryyy small scale 🤏🏻
I never had a blue check, and I got something like 1,800 there in 14 years. I posted irregularly, didn’t really engage the way I’ve been doing here, but I was active for a bit
I got past that number in October, and I’m past 6,400 right now. Crazy.
Corollary - I followed you on Twitter and haven't seen your posts in ages. True of SO many people I followed there who I am now seeing again! The choking of popular accounts was REAL.
Ha! Got you beat! In FOUR days -- count 'em, four, four, four! -- I got forty-four followers. If you'd seen my four year old Twitter account, it is even more BONKERS!
I had an account on Twitter for 11 years - I think I had about 250 followers (not counting all the international sex workers who seemed to think I am male and interested) - I've been here for maybe 6 months, and have over 500 followers. So far, no anonymous sex video workers!
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Does it make sense that those who followed you on Twi-X searched you out here?
And in some way, yr previous Twi-X acct is helping ppl out as their Followers join BlueSky?
https://bsky.app/profile/shoutingboy.bsky.social/post/3lar7snljcc2o
That said, the instinct to be kind already sets this place aside and I thank you for it.
SKEETS FOREVER.
I tend to switch between posts and skeets myself, but I'm a nobody.
Did you not get the invite?
as suggested by The Museum of English Rural Life, because skeets sound like what people with riz write.
🤨
Also, it could be worse...
But us elders (😂😂) love that you remember where you came from!
Honestly, I’d kinda like some more followers…but this happens to be just the moment when I am at a loss for words. 😔
I’m might hit 40 by sometime next week too, what the hell
I got past that number in October, and I’m past 6,400 right now. Crazy.