The Surge in Mastodon’s Active Users Following Twitter’s Restrictions: Insights and Comparison with Previous Peaks

The number of active users of Mastodon skyrocketed last week. That happened after Twitter imposed restrictions on users on the amount of tweets they could see per day.

The number of active users of Mastodon, something that the platform records on the servers page, rose from 1.2 million two weeks ago to 1.9 million now. The big increase came after last week, after Twitter imposed daily limits and temporarily made tweets invisible to non-logged-in users.

Mastodon previously experienced peaks in the period when Musk said he would take over Twitter and the takeover actually took effect. That last peak was higher than this one so far, because then there were a maximum of 2.6 million active users on the platform. That dropped to 1.1 million active users in the following months.

In addition to Twitter’s promotions, Instagram came up with Threads, a Twitter clone that will become compatible with ActivityPub. That is not yet the case. Threads hit 100 million users in five days. The idea behind the support is that account holders on Threads are not locked into Threads thanks to ActivityPub support. If they disagree with the platform or Instagram blocks their account, they can move account and followers to a server of their choice.

2023-07-10 10:06:16
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