The developers are betting on a campaign urging users to dump X on January 20, the day of Elon Musk ally Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, to drive usage of the service
A campaign dubbed HelloQuitX is urging users to dump X on January 20, the day of Musk ally Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, to drive usage of the service.
Image: Courtesy of HelloQuitteX©
French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk's X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.
The developers are betting on a campaign urging users to dump X on January 20, the day of Musk ally Donald Trump's inauguration as US president, to drive usage of the service -- dubbed "HelloQuitX" in a play on the name of Japanese cartoon cat Hello Kitty.
Institutions, politicians and celebrities from around the world have left X in dribs and drabs in the weeks since Trump was re-elected in November.
They include the horror novelist Stephen King, British left-wing newspaper The Guardian and, as of Thursday, French infectious disease centre the Institut Pasteur.
But "many users are trapped on X by their audience," said David Chavalarias, a mathematician at France's CNRS public research body.