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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migrat
 ion - Gareth Tyson\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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CONTACT:Kieron Ivy Turk
DESCRIPTION:On October 27\, 2022\, Elon Musk acquired the world's largest 
 micro-blogging platform\, Twitter. As a self-proclaimed ``free speech abso
 lutist''\, this was a controversial and highly publicised event. The acqui
 sition led to a series of chaotic events. As a consequence\, Twitter exper
 ienced a mass migration of users. One of the recipient platforms has been 
 Mastodon\, a decentralized microblogging service. This presentation will d
 iscuss our measurements of the migration.\n\nBio: Gareth Tyson is an Assis
 tant Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He regul
 arly publishes in venues such as SIGCOMM\, SIGMETRICS\, WWW\, INFOCOM\, Co
 NEXT and IMC\, alongside various top-tier IEEE/ACM Transactions. Over the 
 last 5 years\, he has been awarded over £5 million in research funding an
 d has received coverage from news outlets such as BBC\, Washington Post\, 
 CNBC\, New Scientist\, MIT Tech Review\, The Times\, Slashdot\, Daily Mail
 \, Wired\, Science Daily\, Ars Technica\, The Independent\, Business Insid
 er\, The Register\, as well as being interviewed on both TV and Radio. He 
 regularly serves on numerous organising and program committee member for c
 onferences such as ACM SIGCOMM\, ACM SIGMETRICS\, ACM IMC\, ACM WWW\, ACM 
 CoNEXT\, IEEE ICDCS and AAAI ICWSM.
LOCATION:Webinar & FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building.
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