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Amazing thread, great read! 📌

We are not there just yet at Sheffield. So far this year: 5,575 on X 3,379 on Bluesky Not long now

Given the user base on bluesky of 33 million vs Twitter at 650 million this is an unbelievable feat.

I know it is difficult for you to track Mastodon, but I find that the number of likes/reposts from my paper link posts tends to be higher than on Bluesky, despite having half the followers. The engagement there is high!

Sounds great! But is there an error in these graphs? I’m expecting to see two lines representing both Bluesky and X on each, but I can only see one line…

Oh I think I understand now: it’s comparing area below and above the lines right? Kind of a confusing visualization imo, I would have thought showing two lines would be more intuitive…

You might be coming to this thread without knowing who we are and what we do. Altmetric monitors and tracks how research papers (articles, datasets, sadly NOT the dank memes this account cranks out) are shared on the web. We look in News, blogs, Wiki pages, policy docs, and yes...social media 2/11

Since Twitter was bought, rebranded and its algorithm heavily reshaped, academia, and the people closely following academia have sought additional or replacement homes on other services. Bluesky, although coming later to the party than Mastodon, has won out as the de facto location. 3/11

As we noted at the time, the speed of the move by academic communities to new platforms was aided by the fact that the communities were already fully formed and Bluesky allows for the importing of posts, and therefore the old footprints from Twitter were not lost. bsky.app/profile/alt... 4/11

These threads are brilliant, thanks for bringing so much humour to it!

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