Researchers and academics flocked to Blues. Credit: Matteo Della Torre/Nurphooto via Getty
Participations about research about Bluesky gets much more attention than X, which is previously called Twitter, according to the first widespread analysis of the science content on Bluesky1. The results indicate that Bluesky users deal with posts more than X.
Bluesky has more than 38 million users and many features participate with X, which fell with some scientists when it was purchased by ELON Musk businessman in October 2022. A survey study nature Readers suggested earlier this year that many prefer Bluesky over X to discuss and publish their work.
A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and China analyzed 2.6 million Blue Persons published from January 2023 to July 2025. The results were published in Preprint On ARXIV last month and the pendants were not reviewed.
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They found that nearly half of the posts about science on Bluesky got at least ten likes and that a third was re -published ten times or more. Previous research on X has shown that the percentage of scientific publications that receive at least ten proverbs ranges between 4 % and 7.5 %, and that the percentage that receives ten or more of re -publication ranges between 1.4 % to 4.4 %2. The researchers said that the interactions on Bluesky were an arrangement higher than X. They said that quotes – where users share the posts and add their own text – and the responses were nearly two of the size larger on Bluesky than X.
The team also informed that nearly half of Bluesky posts summarized academic articles and that only 6.3 % mentioned the name of the article and the magazine. In contrast, 92 % of the original X publications on life and land sciences and 17 % of those in engineering and physical sciences indicate more than the title of the study, according to a study conducted in 2018 in Settlement Magazine3. “The research content on Bluesky is more original. “Although X has worked primarily as a tool for publication, Bluesky may support a more explanatory and reflective way for scientific communication.”