{"id":200237,"date":"2024-11-26T23:21:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/zuckerberg-seems-genuinely-alarmed-by-the-explosive-growth-of-bluesky"},"modified":"2024-11-26T23:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T05:21:22","slug":"zuckerberg-seems-genuinely-alarmed-by-the-explosive-growth-of-bluesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/zuckerberg-seems-genuinely-alarmed-by-the-explosive-growth-of-bluesky","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/zuckerberg-seems-genuinely-alarmed-by-the-explosive-growth-of-bluesky3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative that even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice. At this rate, the social site could potentially outpace Threads \u2014 and Meta clearly isn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe race to replace Twitter has accelerated,\u201d Jasmine Enberg, a principal analyst at the market research company eMarketer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2024\/11\/23\/bluesky-threads-social-media\/\" class=\"\"> told <i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a>. \u201cThreads has been the de facto home for many displaced [X-formerly-Twitter] users, but the surge of new users to Bluesky after the election has upped the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>X-formerly-Twitter, the giant in the space, has something like 300 million active monthly users \u2014 a number that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/soax.com\/research\/twitter-active-users\" class=\"\">been plummeting<\/a> ever since Elon Musk acquired the site in 2022, opening up room for a proliferation of new challengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative that even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice. At this rate, the social site could potentially outpace Threads \u2014 and Meta clearly isn\u2019t happy. \u201cThe race to replace Twitter has accelerated,\u201d Jasmine Enberg, a principal analyst at the market research company eMarketer, told The Washington Post. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}