Bluesky

Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (now called X), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform he also helped co-founded.

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.

"The salt being sprinkled between the social media OGs lately has been great entertainment," a person commented.

Regardless of how many people ultimately decide to leave Twitter, and even how many people do so around the same time, creating a community on another platform is an uphill battle. These migrations are in large part driven by network effects, meaning that the value of a new platform depends on who else is there.

A user stated that Mr Dorsey made "two of the seven clones". The Twitter Founder replied that Bluesky and Nostr "are protocols that Twitter can build upon".

Meta's Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the "Twitter-Killer", Threads was the top free app on Apple's App Store in the ...

Twitter has no clear alternative, months after Elon Musk acquired the widely used microblogging platform. From Mastodon to Bluesky, these are some of the popular contenders for a Twitter alternative, in the aftermath of sweeping changes introduced by Musk after the takeover deal.

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky. The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

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.

Using financing from Twitter, Mr Dorsey started developing Bluesky as a side project in 2019. In late February, it was first rolled out to iOS users.

The app is based on four ideals: account portability; algorithmic; performance; and interoperability.

Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that he would give an annual grant of $1 million to Signal, the non-profit privacy-oriented messenger. The Twitter Co-Founder said that the grant to the private messaging app was the first in a series of grants to support "open internet development" and that social networking should not be owned by a single company or gr...

Twitter Co-Founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey on Saturday apologised to employees at Twitter and workers who had been laid off after Elon Musk's takeover deal, saying he was owning the responsibility for the situation. Dorsey asserted that he was to blame for everyone's present situation and that he was aware that many people were 'angry' with him....

A week before Musk took control of the company on Thursday, Dorsey announced that his decentralized social app Bluesky is seeking beta testers.

Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (now called X), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform he also helped co-founded.

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, delayed access to links to content on the Reuters and New York Times websites as well as rivals like Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday.

"The salt being sprinkled between the social media OGs lately has been great entertainment," a person commented.

Regardless of how many people ultimately decide to leave Twitter, and even how many people do so around the same time, creating a community on another platform is an uphill battle. These migrations are in large part driven by network effects, meaning that the value of a new platform depends on who else is there.

A user stated that Mr Dorsey made "two of the seven clones". The Twitter Founder replied that Bluesky and Nostr "are protocols that Twitter can build upon".

Meta's Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the "Twitter-Killer", Threads was the top free app on Apple's App Store in the ...

Twitter has no clear alternative, months after Elon Musk acquired the widely used microblogging platform. From Mastodon to Bluesky, these are some of the popular contenders for a Twitter alternative, in the aftermath of sweeping changes introduced by Musk after the takeover deal.

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky. The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

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.

Using financing from Twitter, Mr Dorsey started developing Bluesky as a side project in 2019. In late February, it was first rolled out to iOS users.

The app is based on four ideals: account portability; algorithmic; performance; and interoperability.

Jack Dorsey said on Tuesday that he would give an annual grant of $1 million to Signal, the non-profit privacy-oriented messenger. The Twitter Co-Founder said that the grant to the private messaging app was the first in a series of grants to support "open internet development" and that social networking should not be owned by a single company or gr...

Twitter Co-Founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey on Saturday apologised to employees at Twitter and workers who had been laid off after Elon Musk's takeover deal, saying he was owning the responsibility for the situation. Dorsey asserted that he was to blame for everyone's present situation and that he was aware that many people were 'angry' with him....

A week before Musk took control of the company on Thursday, Dorsey announced that his decentralized social app Bluesky is seeking beta testers.