Following Brazil’s recent ban of Elon Musk’s X platform, its users in the country appear to switching over to rival platforms.
The reported uptick in the platform's traffic comes after a Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered a nationwide suspension of the X platform on Friday.
Brazil's recent ban of Elon Musk's social media platform X has boosted the profile of its smaller rival, Bluesky, as people search for alternatives to voice their opinions.On Saturday, the company also said that users from Brazil were setting new all-time highs for activity.with court orders in Brazil concerning its content moderation policies and a request to appoint a new legal representative in the country.
As of Wednesday, Bluesky was the top free app on Brazil's iOS App Store, followed by Threads — an X-alternative by Meta Platforms which also own Facebook and Instagram.as a project to build an open, decentralized social protocol, backed by Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter — which was rebranded as X after Musk bought it. Bluesky became an independent company in 2021. Dorsey
Bluesky, Threads and the open-source, decentralized network Mastodon, have been competing to unseat X as the top microblogging platform. Amid controversies surrounding Elon Musk's Twitter takeover in 2022 and his subsequent changes to the platform, these companies have experienced a jump in their users.However, despite reports of advertisers and some users fleeing X, none of the alternatives have emerged as a credible threat to X.Nvidia falls further post-close after plunge wipes out nearly $300 billion in value
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