A new way to leave Twitter — without losing your tweets

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Over the past two weeks, as Elon Musk has carved out a central role for himself in the Trump administration, people have been fleeing X in droves. More than a quarter million users deleted their accounts after Election Day — and more than a million people joined the site's upstart competitor Bluesky. Like worried liberals threatening to decamp for Canada or Europe, ex-Xers are heading for bluer pastures.

It's not the first mass migration away from the site formerly known as Twitter.