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This shocking Elon Musk comment sparked a new record for Jack Dorsey-led Bluesky
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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This shocking Elon Musk comment sparked a new record for Jack Dorsey-led Bluesky

[ad_1] Bluesky is a decentralized social app that was launched this year as an alternative to X (formerly Twitter). The app was co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Notably, since Musk's takeover of Twitter, whenever he says something shocking, it sparks an exodus of users from his platform to rivals like Bluesky. This has happened again. The app on September 19, 2023, saw a massive spike in new user signup after Musk made a shocking comment about making X a paid-only app for everyone. It immediately saw Bluesky log a fantastic new record of the most signups in a day on the portal. While it is not clear what caused the increase in users in a single day, but the comment might have had an impact on users' minds. Know how many new users joined X competitor Bluesky. Bluesky new use...
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Bluesky suffers strange outage after Elon Musk said Block feature will be deleted on X
19Aug By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky suffers strange outage after Elon Musk said Block feature will be deleted on X

[ad_1] Right after X (formerly known as Twitter) owner Elon Musk tweeted that the block feature will be deleted from the platform yesterday, it sparked outrage. Many came forward expressing their displeasure with the decision and urged Musk to reconsider his stance. Something else happened right about this time as well. X rival Bluesky suffered an outage and many users reported that the server load time was excessively high. Some reports are now suggesting that there might be a correlation between the two.According to a report by TechCrunch Bluesky's outage started right after the tweet by Musk, which could have been caused by an influx of users leaving X. There is a precedence for this as well. Last time when Bluesky suffered an outage, X announced restrictions on viewing posts due to ...
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Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky replaces ‘What’s Hot’ with ‘Discover’ feed; Know all about it
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky replaces ‘What’s Hot’ with ‘Discover’ feed; Know all about it

[ad_1] While the headlines are filled with Twitter rebranding itself to X, and Threads getting big updates, Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky is also making important changes on its platform. Yesterday, July 27, the company announced a major change to its feed, changing it from a straightforward ‘popular posts get featured' system to more of an algorithmic play where users will get a more recommendation-based feed to see new posts that they might actually be interested in. This change will also rename the ‘What's Hot' feed to ‘Discover'. Additionally, those who do not prefer this new feed can always take advantage of custom feeds to choose something they do like.Bluesky upgrades its feedIn its blog post Bluesky stated, “To improve the default experience, we're now replacing “What's Hot” with “...
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Amid Threads launch, Bluesky announces its paid service, says raised $8 mn in seed funding
6Jul By adminNo Comments
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Amid Threads launch, Bluesky announces its paid service, says raised $8 mn in seed funding

[ad_1] While the world is fixated on the big launch of the Instagram-powered Threads platform, one of its rivals Bluesky has quietly had a big day as well. It announced its seed round funding. The Jack Dorsey-backed platform shared that it has raised a total of $8 million over the summer. Additionally, the company also announced its first paid service where it will offer custom domains to those who want a unique domain as their username on the platform.Making the announcement in a blog post, Bluesky stated, “We raised $8M in a seed round led by Neo, a community-led firm with amazing partners like Ali Partovi and Suzanne Xie, and a wonderful cast of additional investors including Joe Beda who co-created Kubernetes, Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker,...
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As users flee Twitter after hitting ‘limit’, Bluesky witnesses ‘record traffic’
4Jul By adminNo Comments
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As users flee Twitter after hitting ‘limit’, Bluesky witnesses ‘record traffic’

[ad_1] Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the social media platform has suffered hits from his rather erratic decision-making - some good, some great, and some downright ugly. Right after taking the seat as the CEO of the company, he began a massive layoff that saw people working with the company for years being let go. Later, he introduced the Twitter Blue subscription, adding the blue tick as a part of the package, something that has been given to people of repute to distinguish them from fake accounts. While Musk is no longer the CEO after appointing Linda Yaccarino and taking the Chairman and CTO role, he is still making decisions - questionable ones. On Saturday, he announced a tweet view limit for all users, causing panic among the user base. Soon, many flocked to the Jack Do...
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Threads, the Twitter rival from Instagram, may launch on July 6; what we know so far
4Jul By adminNo Comments
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Threads, the Twitter rival from Instagram, may launch on July 6; what we know so far

[ad_1] Over the last few months, we have heard about this new Twitter rival app called Threads, which is being built by Instagram. We have seen a couple of leaked screenshots that highlighted that while the visual aesthetics of the platform will be similar to Instagram, the functionality is close to what Twitter offers. Additionally, just like some other Twitter rivals that have emerged recently such as Bluesky and Mastodon, Threads is also likely to be a decentralized platform. And now, reports have revealed that after all the anticipation, the app is likely to launch on July 6, in just two days' time.The report comes from The Verge, which found the App Store listing mentioning that “Threads, an Instagram app” will be available to download on July 6. This information follows the Google...
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Bluesky, championed by Jack Dorsey, was supposed to be Twitter 2.0. Can it succeed?
7Jun By adminNo Comments
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Bluesky, championed by Jack Dorsey, was supposed to be Twitter 2.0. Can it succeed?

[ad_1] Bluesky, the internet's hottest members-only spot at the moment, feels a bit like an exclusive club, populated by some Very Online folks, popular Twitter characters, and fed up ex-users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.Musk is not on it — and this might be part of the appeal for those longing for the way things were before the Tesla billionaire bought Twitter and upended nearly everything about the social network, from rules against harassment to content moderation to its system for verifying prominent users' identities. It also helps that Bluesky grew out of Twitter — a pet project of former CEO Jack Dorsey, who still sits on its board of directors. “It was designed to replace Twitter,” said Sol Messing, who worked at Twitter as a data scientist until January and is now associate...
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