Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Becomes First Person To Pass 1 Million Followers On Bluesky
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The New York congresswoman says it's “not rocket science” why people are abandoning the platform X en masse.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has become the first person to gain more than 1 million followers on the social media site Bluesky, saying “it’s not rocket science” why tens of thousands of people have abandoned X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Ocasio-Cortez’s follower count is only surpassed by Bluesky’s own official account, the platform said, per The Hill.
Bluesky’s surging popularity coincides with an ongoing exodus from X in the two years since Elon Musk’s controversial takeover.
Some of the people leaving Twitter have variously cited an uptick of hate speech, the throttling of traffic to certain news organizations, and Musk’s support of President-elect Donald Trump as reasons to get out. On Monday, Ocasio-Cortez shared her own thinking.
“People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy,” she wrote. “It’s not rocket science.”
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