You can leave your Twitter account in place—and you may want to, if there are particular accounts you want to follow that aren’t on Bluesky. Keeping your account also prevents anyone from taking your username (and maybe pretending to be you). You will need to log into your account periodically so your account isn’t deemed inactive.

Ever since Tesla and Space X tech billionaire Elon Musk petitioned to buy Twitter in 2022, a mess has followed him and the renamed X. When Musk purchased the site for $44 billion, he vowed to make the app and company,

The main owner of Bluesky helped create a social media platform that discourages bots and hate speech and lets users curate their feed as they wish.