 Founder Eugen Rochko said his platform is now the "biggest that this network has ever been" and has gained 230,000 users since October 27. This pales in comparison to Twitter's huge 238 million daily users, but ongoing unrest at the social media giant appears to be working in Mastodon's favour. It is also unclear if the new Mastodon users have ditched their Twitter experience altogether. Mastodon's not-for-profit approach appears to be appealing to new users ( Hollandse Hoogte/REX/Shutterstock) Selling itself, ironically on Twitter, Mastodon said: "Why choose Mastodon? Because it's decentralized and open-source, it can't be sold and won't go bankrupt. "It respects your privacy and gives control over the network to the people. It's a product on top of a protocol, the way Twitter should have been." Some of the app's critics say it is still too small and may not provide the news-orientated content people are looking f){kind=link}
Thousands of Twitter users appear to be flocking to fellow social networking app Mastodon amid difficult times for Elon Musk’s Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko said Mastodon has gained 230,000 users since October 27
Social media site Mastodon appears to be benefiting from the unease at the takeover of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk.
Mastodon has been in existence since 2016 and is similar to Twitter in its system of following people, but people have free choice of the servers they follow.
Servers can also be run by strangers and may require invites to join them, instead of the free-for-all approach where the likes of Twitter and Facebook run their own servers.
Essentially, users can swap tweets for ‘toots’ and have more control over what appears on their timeline.