Social media platform Bluesky is relatively new, but it’s been growing exponentially as another platform experiences an X-odus. According to Altmetric, Bluesky may already favor a particular community: researchers.
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On Tuesday, the data company, which specializes in tracking how published work gets shared, posted on Bluesky that it has been monitoring the platform since late October. Altmetric found that attention for academic articles is higher on Bluesky than on similar sites, “meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research,” the company said.
“Since Oct 25th, we have found 395,000 Bluesky posts that link to a research paper or other research object that has a scholarly identifier like a DOI, PubMed ID, URN etc.,” the thread explains. “This is enormously high for …