Per Shiffman and Wester, “overwhelming majority” of respondents said that BlueSky has “vibrant and healthy online scientific community”, while Twitter is gone. And many BlueSky users have informed how to get more for their zloty, so to speak, to BlueSky. They may have a fewer followers, but these observers are much more involved: for example, someone of 50,000 watching Twitter/X can get five likes in a given post; But in BlueSky they can only have 5000 followers, but their posts will receive 100 likes.
According to Shiffman, Twitter was always in the top three in terms of movement recommending posts on frying on southern science. Then “muskification” appeared, and suddenly the twitter referrals did not break even the top ten. In 2025, however, BlueSky led “a hundred times more pages” to Southern Fried Science than Twitter. Irronically ” Blog post This obtained the most views from Twitter is the one about this article – said Shiffman.
The head of the ARS social media, Connor Mcinerney, confirmed that Technicka has so far noticed a constant decline in Twitter traffic in 2025. In 2025. In addition: “I can say anegdotically that in summer we saw how our Bluessy movement is starting to surpass our movement on Twitter for the first time,” said Mciniery, attributing to the development of factors. “We have more often published on the platform, and our audience developed significantly. According to my estimates, our audience has grown by 63 percent since January. The platform has also developed in general – they had 10 million users in September last year, and this month the latest numbers indicate that there are 38 million users. Our chairman on Twitter remained quite stationary at the same time.”
Bubble, Schmubble
As for scientists who want to share online scientific documents, Shiffman pulled Altmetrics statistics for a new article and Wester. “This is one of the 10 most frequently shared articles in the history of this magazine in social media,” he said from 14 actions on Twitter/x versus over a thousand shares on BlueSky (from 16:00 ET 20 August). “If the goal is to show a more dynamic academic scientific conversation about BlueSky,” I mean damn, “he said.
And although recently there was a indefinite drum in a sense Hereditary media By accusing BlueSky of imprisonment in his own liberal bubble, Shiffman, for example, has little fear. “I don’t care because I don’t use social media to argue with strangers for politics” wrote In the accompanying post on the blog. “I use social media to talk about fish. When I talk about fish on BlueSky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we are Jews.” He compared the current incarnation of Twitter as no better than 4chan or truth in terms of the percentage of “extremists susceptible to a plot” in the audience. “Even if you want to stay, the algorithm works against you,” he wrote.
“There were many opinions about why BlueSky is not useful because people are relatively left,” said Ars Shiffman. “I have not seen any of the same people that Twitter is bad because it is relatively correct. Twitter is also not a representative attempt of society.” Considering its concentration on the protection of oceans and science based, based on data on environmental, he will probably find a more committed and convinced audience in BlueSky.