Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration

Aravindh Raman; Gareth Tyson; Haris Bin Zia; Ignacio Castro; Jiahui He; Nishanth Sastry

Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration

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arxiv 2302.14294 v1 pith:R55SN3N4 submitted 2023-02-28 cs.SI

Haris Bin Zia , Jiahui He , Aravindh Raman , Ignacio Castro , Nishanth Sastry , Gareth Tyson This is my paper · ORCID

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The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk's views on free speech. As a result, a large number of Twitter users have looked for alternatives to Twitter. Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network, has attracted the attention of many users and the general media. In this paper, we track and analyze the migration of 136,009 users from Twitter to Mastodon. Our analysis sheds light on the user-driven pressure towards centralization in a decentralized ecosystem and identifies the strong influence of the social network in platform migration. We also characterize the activity of migrated users on both Twitter and Mastodon.

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