1. A British (Welsh) journalist ran an experiment, comparing what happens on Twitter vs what happens on BlueSky, when he posted a pro-Ukraine post.
Plenty of follows on both, 5k more on Twitter.
BlueSky, tons of immediate pro-UA replies.
Twitter, silence for 12 hours - almost no views - then a barrage of hate-spam from robots, then post is made visible to everyone else.
It seems to me the 12 hour delay is critical. Robots, who knows who runs them, but 12 hours of no visibility when other posts behave normally and becoming visible only when a mass of hate spam has abruptly turned up - that looks like it can be and only be Twitter, and Twitter is doing both.
2. That was one guy testing, but the results are of enormous importance.
If you have a BlueSky account and a Twitter account, reasonable number of followers, can I suggest you give it a go - post the same thing pro-UA on both platforms, report what you find.
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