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Bluesky, the X rival boosted by EU’s tech enforcer – 3 questions answered

12Oct

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Bluesky, the X rival boosted by EU’s tech enforcer – 3 questions answered

[ad_1] Since Elon Musk hollowed out Twitter's staffing, pushed services behind a paywall and renamed it X, many users have been thrashing around for an alternative social media platform.So far none has emerged as a clear winner, but EU commissioner Thierry Breton, alarmed at the disinformation on X, has just made a very public choice to switch to Bluesky -- one of the lesser-known X rivals. What is Bluesky?. The platform was created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey as a side project in 2019.Dorsey put five engineers aside to build a decentralised alternative to Twitter.He said at the time that centralised attempts to police abuse and misinformation on a platform like Twitter were unlikely to work, and wanted to give users more control of personal data and content moderation.But Bluesky...

Surprise! Bluesky to slap rate limits on users as traffic skyrockets

23Aug

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Surprise! Bluesky to slap rate limits on users as traffic skyrockets

[ad_1] Since Elon Musk's takeover, X (formerly known as Twitter) has undergone a myriad of changes. The introduction of Twitter Blue, imposing temporary restrictions, and rebranding to X are just some of the drastic steps taken by the Tesla and SpaceX CEO. Witnessing this, many users had enough and they've been flocking to other microblogging platforms, namely Instagram's Threads and Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social. While the former is a rapidly developing platform that is open to everyone, the latter is still in an invite-only phase, but still has hit the headlines recently as a number of celebrities and eminent personalities have joined it.Seeing record traffic, Bluesky suffered network issues a number of times. In fact, every time Musk announced a change on Twitter, there were a huge nu...

Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky grew 606% in April, with 628,000 downloads

12May

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Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky grew 606% in April, with 628,000 downloads

[ad_1] Bluesky is giving tough competition to Elon Musk-led Twitter. The social media platform made a buzz online after it was opened to the public on an invitation basis. The platform innovates the general workings of social networking platforms by using a decentralized and open-source system. Highlighting its popularity, in the month of April, the Jack Dorsey-founded platform saw a total of 628000 mobile downloads.According to a report by CNBC, Bluesky recorded a massive 606 percent jump after gaining more than 6 lakh users compared to the month of March. The data was sourced by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The growth of Bluesky is notable considering Twitter just saw a 2 percent rise in the month of April, growing from its existing 14.6 million downloads compared to March. ...

Celebs, politicians join Twitter rival Bluesky: Here’s how you can too

29Apr

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Celebs, politicians join Twitter rival Bluesky: Here’s how you can too

[ad_1] With Twitter mired in confusion over check marks, subscriptions and an ever—increasing number of seemingly haphazard decisions by the platform's owner Elon Musk, some users are searching for alternatives. Many are looking no further than Bluesky, which has its own origins in Twitter and, to all intents and purposes, acts in a very similar fashion. Its latest devotees include US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, writer-comedian Dril and model Chrissy Teigen. But for now it's invite only. The platform on Thursday said it had just experienced its biggest single-day jump in users yet. Here's everything you need to know about Bluesky — and how to get an all-important invite: What is Bluesky?On the outside, Bluesky is a platform with similar looks and features to Twitter — alb...