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We warned you that this change was coming – but X has just made it official: Blocking on Elon Musk’s social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer actually block users from viewing content — and now users appear to be fleeing X once again. Essentially, a block on X will now just mean that a blocked user can’t interact with your posts. They can still see them though, which was not the case before this change. The change to the block function was met with largely negative reactions, with even Musk supporters pointing out the user safety concerns that come with this shift.
Bluesky grows by 500,000 in 24 hours
Bluesky is one of the few X alternatives that have found success after Musk’s acquisition of then-Twitter. It is the third largest micro-blogging type social media platform after competitors X and Meta’s Threads. However, unlike those two companies, Bluesky is registered as a public benefit corporation, and brands itself as the decentralized social media platform. Bluesky has gained half a million new users in just 24 hours since X made the formal announcement about the change.
Bluesky and Threads tend to notice a bump in user sign-ups after Musk makes a decision that appears to alienate X users. However, despite having fewer resources than the Instagram-linked Threads, Bluesky continues to attract hundreds of thousands of new users every time X users set off for a new home. For example, when Brazil banned X from operating in the country last month due to the company’s refusal to comply with its laws, Bluesky touted another surge in user growth. In just one week, the social media platform gained 3 million new users. Shortly after that bump in user numbers, Bluesky announced that it had hit 10 million users. Now, thanks to this latest move by X, Bluesky has just blown past 11 million users.
