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Bluesky and “Starter Packs” curated lists of users to follow, has proven a popular way to help people connect with others on social media – so popular, that X is now adopting the feature.
On Wednesday, X’s marketing director, Nikita Bierannounced in a post that Elon Musk’s program will soon introduce its own version of these lists, which it calls “Starterpacks.” (What a first!)
The idea behind this new feature is to help users find accounts that match their interests in a variety of categories, including News, Politics, Fashion, Technology, Business & Finance, Health & Fitness, Sports, Stocks, Memes, and more.
However, unlike Bluesky’s Starter Packs, which anyone on the platform can create and share with others, X has created its own lists internally.
As Bier explains in his post on X, the company “searched the world for the best brands in each niche and country” over the past few months to create its list. In other words, the packages are based on the internals of X – not on individual preferences.
Bier says Starterpacks will be made available to everyone at X “in the coming weeks.”
The user list is nothing new to X – it has been used on the social network since its early days, when it was known as Twitter. As one of the first social networking apps, Twitter users didn’t want or need to simply find and connect with their friends, as they do on other apps like Facebook. Instead, they wanted to find people whose views and interests were in line with their own. To help them get started, Twitter has provided a list of users that they can best follow.
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However, the appearance was opposites at that time because it increased the popularity of users and followers when they were added to the List of Featured Users. Some felt that the system was unfair, leading Twitter in 2010 to say edit the created list being one determined by algorithms.
X isn’t the only program that can follow Bluesky’s clever idea of ​​Starter Packs. Shave and Thread started testing its version of Bluesky’s Starter Packs in December 2024, which were also lists created by individual users. User collections were displayed to users when they first registered for Threads and occasionally within the For You feed. The decentralized social network Mastodon also produced “Packs” recently. to support users.
