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Twitter users, weary from another tumultuous weekend, are exploring Jack Dorsey-backed app Bluesky as a possible alternative to the social media network.
The invite-only Bluesky 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. It recently added an Android app as well.
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 $8-a-month subscription service, and many of the platform’s most influential users have criticized the fee and accused Twitter of misrepresenting them as paying subscribers.
Users put off by Musk’s seemingly haphazard Twitter decisions have sought a credible alternative for months, including services like Mastodon. Bluesky has a close affinity with Twitter, having been initiated by the bigger network’s co-founder Dorsey in 2019. The younger service aims to provide a more open social protocol and standard that would allow any service to plug in and interact.
3. You can keep the same domain handle when you switch services. If you’re using the https://t.co/7NJgL2gUPs server we’re running, but decide you don’t like our policies and want to switch to another, your friends can still find you by the same name.
— Jay Graber (@arcalinea) March 8, 2023
The Bluesky app is, in the words of project leader Jay…
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