{"id":1539437,"date":"2025-06-02T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1539437"},"modified":"2025-06-02T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:45:00","slug":"pew-finds-blueskys-news-influencers-arent-influencing-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/pew-finds-blueskys-news-influencers-arent-influencing-anyone\/1539437\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Finds BlueSky’s ‘News Influencers’ Aren’t Influencing Anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pew Finds BlueSky’s ‘News Influencers’ Aren’t Influencing Anyone<\/span><\/p>\n

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Following last fall’s U.S. presidential election, a wave of left-leaning X accounts\u2014some of which self-proclaimed themselves as “news influencers”\u2014announced their plans to abandon Elon Musk’s social media platform in favor of\u00a0the woke Bluesky platform.<\/p>\n

A new Pew Research Center analysis<\/a> of 500 top news influencers (each with over 100,000 followers) shows that Bluesky’s adoption surged after the 2024 presidential election, rising from 21% to 43% by March 2025. Nearly half of the Bluesky accounts were created after the election, with a sizeable spike in the final weeks of November.<\/p>\n

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Despite Bluesky’s rise as a digital ‘safe space’ for progressives, X remains one of the most influential platforms for online conversation:<\/p>\n

Many news influencers on Bluesky joined during the platform’s recent wave of growth. About half of sampled news influencers with a Bluesky account (51%) created that account after the 2024 election, including 42% who did so in the last three weeks of November 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even with Bluesky’s growth, X remains popular among the 2024 sample of news influencers. As of early 2025, 82% have an account there, about the same share as in summer 2024 (85%).<\/em><\/p>\n

And most of these news influencers with a Bluesky account also have an X account. Only 6% of the influencers we studied have a Bluesky account but not an X account, while 37% have both. The largest share (46%) have an X account but not a Bluesky account.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pew’s findings will disappoint rage-fueled leftist\u00a0news influencers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>At the same time, most news influencers across the political spectrum have not left X. <\/em><\/strong>Three-quarters of left-leaning news influencers have an X account, as do 87% of right-leaning news influencers and 83% of those without a clear political orientation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pew also noted that most influencers continue to post regularly on X rather than on Bluesky.<\/p>\n

The left relentlessly tried to dismantle X, with their army of PR propagandists staging a mass exodus. Months later, realizing Bluesky has zero influence at all, these crazed leftists have returned to X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 06\/02\/2025 – 12:45<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/pew-finds-blueskys-news-influencers-arent-influencing-anyone<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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