“Twitter is the biggest adult-friendly platform out there.”
Twitter ‘Blue’: Sex workers, censorship and the fight for online visibility - Index on Censorship
After being shut out online, sex workers saw Twitter Blue as a tool for more visibility. However, it's had the opposite effect
For Bluesky to thrive, it needs sex workers and Black Twitter | TechCrunch
If Bluesky wants to be a genuine rival to Twitter, it needs to protect sex workers and its Black community.
Sex workers explain why blue check stigma and #BlockTheBlue aren’t so straightforward | TechCrunch
For some online creators, Twitter Blue features like text-based 2FA and longer video uploads are essential -- even if they don't support Musk.
Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Sex Workers Built the Internet
An internet history that centers sex workers’ voices and experiences
Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans
Creators of sexually explicit content talk about what it's like to rely on a platform that can just... change its policies, then change them back.
wint on Twitter / X
every one who buys twitter blue is a sex worker because they are sucking off the Mods .— wint (@dril) February 16, 2023
The Future of Sex Work Slams Up Against Big Tech
As influencers peddle more sexually explicit content, Big Tech's biggest platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter—are increasing restrictions.
These Adult Sites Are the Latest to Close Down Because of Big Banks
Queer and trans sex workers are losing yet another way to get paid.
Social media for sex workers, IGF 2019 | Kollektiv.e
‘Now we don’t have a safe place’: sex workers’ social media site Switter shuts down amid legal fears
Platform says government changes to online safety and defamation laws in Australia, UK and US made it ‘impossible’ to comply
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of scientists on social media. In recent years, new leadership at Twitter has made substantive changes that have resulted in increases in the prevalence of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory, and harassment on the platform, causing many scientists to seek alternatives. Bluesky has been suggested as a good alternative to Twitter, but the phenomenon of academics switching social media platforms has not previously been studied. Here we report on the results of a survey distributed to scientists on Twitter and Bluesky (n = 813). Results overwhelmingly confirm that changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky. Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.
During the mass influx of users to Bluesky during the '24 election, I saw the need to carve out a space for real [femme] adult creators. The biggest related hashtags at the time like #NSFW were mostly art, furries, gay Twitter, and stolen porn. OF girls couldn't get seen.
