(4 Sept 2025) The social media site Bluesky is emerging as a significant platform for science communication, with substantially higher levels of engagement and content originality than its rival platform, X. In the first large-scale analysis of science content on Bluesky, researchers at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Renmin University of China collected and…
(3 Dec 2024) Digital Science has announced that Altmetric, which gauges the online attention of research, has added the social media platform Bluesky as a new attention source for published research. This major development sees Altmetric become the first to systematically track the impact of conversations about research on Bluesky, which has reached more than 23 million users.…
(9 Nov 2023) One year into Elon Musk’s acquisition of X (formerly known as Twitter), engagement metrics are down across the board, with app downloads down 38%, web traffic down 7% globally and down 11.6% in the U.S. “What is UP with Twitter?” “What about Threads?” “Is Academic Twitter disappearing?” “Could BlueSky be the replacement?” Are…