Bluesky signing up users in droves as Twitter stumbles
from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky Social as a possible alternative to the social media network.has been downloaded by iPhone users 245 000 times, of which more than half came this month, according to Data.ai. This year, the app started inviting users from its waiting list — which numbered more than a million people when Elon Musk bought Twitter in October — to test a beta version, although it’s limiting users for now.
Musk’s Twitter, which has hundreds of millions of users, removed legacy verification marks on the service en masse before restoring a number of high-profile accounts, causing confusion over the weekend. The billionaire has made verification part of an US$8/month subscription service, and many of the platform’s most influential users have criticised the fee and accused Twitter of misrepresenting them as paying subscribers.
The Bluesky app is, in the words of project leader Jay Graber, “a very simple microblogging format to show how Twitter could have been built” on its protocol. It works much like a rudimentary version of Twitter, allowing 300-character posts and replies, the ability to repost and also share photos as well as text.
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