More than 30,000 people signed up on the new blockchain-based social-media company Bluesky Social within two days of its launch last month, said reports. Bluesky Social, launched by Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and former CEO, is currently enlisting users for beta testing. The move comes at a time when Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk completed his takeover of social media giant Twitter.

Following Musk’s takeover, a number of Twitter users found themselves quitting the social media giant and flocking to other social media platforms.

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Here is a look at the top 5 Twitter alternatives some of which have recently witnessed a surge in traffic and downloads.

Mastodon

Mastodon is a decentralised social network which was launched in 2016. The day after Musk took over Twitter, Mastodon gained over 70,000 new sign-ups.

The free and open-source microblogging service allows you to follow other users and create posts like Twitter. These can be liked and retweeted. However, unlike Twitter, users of Mastodon have to sign up on individual servers, or nodes, which have their own theme, rules, language and moderation policy.

The app saw the most installs in a single day on October 29 with 34,000 new downloads on iOS and Android, TechCrunch reported.

In a Twitter post on November 3, Mastodon said 230,000 people have joined the platform last week, taking the network’s total active users to 655,000.

The number of people who switched over to #Mastodon in the last week alone has surpassed 230 thousand, along with many returning to old accounts bumping the network to over 655 thousand active users, highest it's ever been!

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