After giving weeks to election day Following Kamala Harris on the campaign trail, billionaire Mark Cuban has decided to put his feet up and take a break from politics after Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The Shark Tank The investor and minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks also deleted his posts X about the vice president
“Just an FYI. Don’t expect any politics or speculation about what might happen in the interim. I’m sure there will be plenty to comment on when the time comes,” Cuban said Tuesday. BlueSky message.
Although he did not contribute financially During Harris’s presidential campaign, he was a supporter of Vice President Cuban, who he believed “better president” than Trump. It has Cubans severely criticized Trump’s proposal of tough tariffs and inability to dive into the “tiny” of policies. But Cuban insisted at spring cleaning X, where he brushed off references to his support for Harris, that it was nothing more than routine.
“I’ve been deleting twitter posts for over 10 years,” he said luck in an email “Where were you when I deleted the posts about the players the Mavs traded lol.”
“It’s not an event,” he added.
But Cuban has given himself a new start on social media, moving away from posting on X, where Elon Musk is CEO and owner. strongly encouraged He sends his support for Trump—and instead—more often on BlueSky. Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, developed this platform and opened it to the general public last February. Prior to Tuesday’s posts on the app, Cuban had not posted on BlueSky since July 2023.
“Hello Less Hateful World,” he said he wrote on the platform on Tuesday.
Greener grass, bluer sky
Cuban joins 14.5 million other BlueSky users as the app grows in popularity following the election and a mass exodus of X. Another 700,000 last week they joined BlueSky. Three months ago, the application had 6.18 million users; a month ago, it reached 10.85 million users. Likewise, Meta’s X thread outperformed the alternatives 275 million monthly users after the launch in July 2023 at the beginning of the month.
Meanwhile, X has hemorrhaged 2.4 million users in the UK from September 2024 to this year. In the US, active users on Musk’s platform are down 20% in 16 months, Data from Similarweb. The the guard announced that it would stop publishing on its official editorial accounts on the platform due to “extreme right-wing conspiracy theories and racism”. The publication wrote that the US Presidential Election underscored what it had long predicted: “X is a toxic media platform and its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence. shape the political discourse“.
The shift in favor of BlueSky and Threads is consistent with X’s well-documented tendency to spread disinformation. Musk’s X posts spread lies about election security, among other things wrong claims Certain voting machines were found to be changing votes, which were viewed 1.2 billion times and were not verified by the app’s Community Notes feature, according to August. the data From the Center Against Digital Hate. Musk’s support for Trump has strengthened since the election with CEO X named co-head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, cementing the months-long courtship between Musk and the next US president.
The migration away from X has also created an online utopia for left-leaning users who perceive the BlueSky platform as friendlier and more accepting, according to Axel Bruns, a social media researcher at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
“Twitter has become a haven for people who want to have the social media experience they used to have, but without the far-right activism, misinformation, hate speech, bots and anything else,” he said. he said to him the guard.
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