I’ve got a Blue Sky account and immediately started getting hit up for invites (I don’t have any, unfortunately).īlueSky is considered a safe haven because it’s very similar to the “old Twitter” and is run by some of the same people. Sports Twitter was so well-established that it may have survived every misstep the company has taken to this point, but this may be a step too far. The reaction was very quick among some of my friends, who immediately wrote that they were done with Twitter. That limit was very low for users who didn’t subscribe to his “Twitter Blue” service. The reason for the mass exodus from Twitter yesterday is that Musk put a “ rate limit” on the number of posts that users could read.

The OBR has set up profiles on all three, but none have achieved critical mass. The latter shut down new sign-ups yesterday because of the traffic volume of people fleeing Twitter. From scaring off advertisers with moderation decisions to shoving “Twitter Blue” down consumers’ throats for things that used to be free, Musk’s arbitrary and poorly-explained decisions have been chasing Twitter users to competitors to sites like Mastodon, Post.News, and, increasingly, BlueSky. Musk has tried to do that but basically bobbled things every step of the way. People have become used to getting breaking news fast and for free as a result, building a vast audience for Twitter to try to monetize. “Sports Twitter” and “Browns Twitter” exist, and many news breakers idiotically give away breaking news on Twitter for free rather than monetizing it via their websites. But, for many people who use this site, Twitter is a key way to get news about the Browns and other sports. I even started up an alternative late last year to see if folks would embrace a similar Browns-specific app (they didn’t). On the other subject, I know we’ve got people on this site who don’t use Twitter, and I’ve been engaging with it less and less over the last two years due to the lack of moderation and the complete management cluster of the Elon regime. I personally think Chubb will do well in fantasy football simply because, run or pass, he’ll see the end zone more often. I don’t play fantasy football, so this doesn’t impact me much. I figure that I’ve got a couple of weeks of lame Browns news to use the tumbleweed, and a company like Twitter only gets to suicide itself a couple of times, so I’ll use the Twitter photo.Īs far as Browns news is concerned, there’s a smattering of articles concerning Nick Chubb, mostly based on how much he’ll be used in 2023 and whether his receiving yards will counteract fewer handoffs and result in fewer fantasy points. I had a nice photo of a tumbleweed to represent the dearth of Browns news today, and I had a pixelized photo of the Twitter app to memorialize Twitter on the day of its unofficial demise. So, I was undecided about what photograph should accompany today’s edition of the Newswire.

Will mcbride show me