Thinking about deleting your X account?

As you might have noticed in the news, folks are closing their X (formerly Twitter) accounts and moving to Bluesky (an X alternative). It’s rapid growth of 14 million users in the last few weeks, BlueSky has the potential to be the next big social media platform. Jack Dorsey, the former head of Twitter, created Bluesky in 2021 but stepped down in May 2024 – allowing Jay Graber to run the show.

From Hollywood to Advertisers to Influencers to Small Businesses, folks are moving to this platform and deleting their X accounts. Bluesky has emerged as an alternative for those looking for a different mood, lighter and friendlier and less influenced by Elon Musk’s X.

Things to know:

  • If you delete your X account, your username becomes available for anyone else to use on the platform once the 30-day deactivation period ends; essentially, your old username is no longer associated with your account and can be taken by another user.
  • What is X’s inactive account policy? To keep your account active, be sure to log in at least every 30 days. Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.
  • Bluesky operates as a “decentralized” social media platform, which means users can create their own servers on which they can store data and set their own rules, instead of using servers owned by the company.
  • You can set your domain as your handle, if you wish. “For example, a newsroom like NPR could set their handle to be @npr.org,”
  • A couple of Bluesky fun features — being able to hide replies to your posts and detach your posts from other users’ posts that quote yours — are designed to stop pile-ons and other toxic behavior.

Both DavidB (@davidbirdwell.bsky.social) and I (@jameybrumfield.bsky.social) have moved our personal accounts over to Bluesky as well as our YourPlanB (@yourplanb.bsky.social) and SpookyInc (@spookyinc.bsky.social) old X accounts.

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Resources:

https://lifehacker.com/tech/bluesky-is-the-new-twitter
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/bluesky-fast-growing-social-platform-welcoming-fleeing-users-115920043
https://medium.com/@ben-ellis/why-switch-from-twitter-x-to-bluesky-ca47d2623e45
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o