In just a week after Elon Musk took over Twitter, Mastodon, which is another micro blogging platform got millions of new followers in just a few days. This gigantic growth figure is due to a wave of Twitter users deciding to switch services in the face of Elon Musk’s unpredictable leadership.
“Mastodon has recently exploded in popularity, jumping from approx. 300K monthly active users to 2.5M between the months of October and November, with more and more journalists, political figures, writers, actors and organizations moving over,” Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko said in a statement.
After its massive growth Mastodon has now gone on to be ranked at the 8th position in free social networking apps on Google Play Store and 11th in social networking apps on Apple’s App Store.
Elon Musk’s ongoing antics appear to be helping Mastodon sustain that growth. Twitter is trying to prevent users from leaving by limiting links from other social platforms. It quietly started blocking links to Mastodon last week but made this practice an explicit policy on Sunday. Musk was also forced to suspend it by a vocal backlash less than 24 hours later.
Some users indicted Musk of abandoning free speech after Twitter banned the promotion of other social media platforms for a short time. This incident occurred at the same time that Twitter suspended several journalists covering Musk, which only caused even more desertions from Twitter.
