Mastodon struggles to keep up with flood of Twitter defectors


Since Musk took over Twitter on Oct 27, Mastodon has drawn 489,003 new users, bringing total monthly active users to more than one million, Rochko said. — Reuters

Mastodon, an open-source social network that markets itself as an alternative to Twitter Inc, has seen a surge in new sign-ups in recent days, overwhelming the site and its founder as the tiny operation struggles to keep up.

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter on Oct 27, Mastodon has drawn 489,003 new users, bringing total monthly active users to more than one million, founder, lead developer and chief executive officer Eugen Rochko said on his own Mastodon account Nov 7. That’s a tiny fraction compared to Twitter’s 238 million daily active users. But Musk’s purchase has seemingly been the incentive the German non-profit has been waiting for since its founding in 2016.

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