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The bifurcation of the internet into Left-wing and Right-wing spaces continues apace. Britain’s Left-wing posters have fled X — formerly Twitter — in droves since Elon Musk’s takeover, according to analysis in the Financial Times.
Striking how Musk’s post saying civil war was inevitable in the UK due to immigration prompted a sudden and large migration from X to BlueSky in Britain.
User numbers for BlueSky remain far smaller than for X, but I’d say most of the UK commentariat has now moved across. pic.twitter.com/4T9I4NKeR1
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) September 23, 2024
Musk’s claim that a British civil war over immigration was inevitable appears to have driven the latest spike in growth at Bluesky, X’s progressive rival. Daily users rose from about 40,000 to 100,000 from August to September. Socially conservative Brits, meanwhile, have stuck around on X. Before the 2015 and 2019 elections, 30% of progressive Britons posted political content on X, but that number had fallen by half by the time of the summer riots. The Right-wing takeover of X is nearly complete…
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