Bluesky Social, a new Twitter-like app with partial funding from former Twitter head Jack Dorsey is getting rave reviews from people who are using it and is said to be another whack at Elon Musk.
It is created by the Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley
Bluesky Social, a new Twitter-like app with partial funding from former Twitter head Jack Dorsey is getting rave reviews from people who are using it and is said to be another whack at Elon Musk.
Bluesky is the latest app in the long list of apps that are looking to steal Twitter’s thunder after the chaotic takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk. The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and fashion model Chrissy Teigen, who have millions of followers on Twitter, joined the platform.
It is created by the Twitter’s co-founder Jack Dorsey and is now the talk of Silicon Valley. People are scrambling to secure an invite to join the app that is still in testing phase.
Here are some details on the service:
What Is Bluesky?
It is a social media service which is text focused service launched for selected users in February. The users can post short messages of upto 300 characters, and pictures. So far there is no support for videos and direct messages, or DMs so far. The platform looks and feels like Twitter as its backers want users from the Elon Musk owned site to feel at home, through posts on the app are referred to as ‘skeets’, not tweets.
In many aspects Bluesky is similar to its counterpart Mastodon, which also runs on decentralised framework, which gives users more control over how their data is stored and how the content is moderated. Bluesky offers a lot of customization which allows users to build independent social media experiences and the users can join a specific ‘server’, which has its own unique set of rules, interests and participants.
How Is It Different From Twitter?
Bluesky more or less offers same experience to users which Twitter offers with few exceptions. You can create profiles and post short messages with texts and images. On the timeline, Bluesky has ‘what’s hot’ and following feed which is again similar to the counterpart Twitter.
The most different and interesting part is that, unlike Twitter, Bluesky’s core framework allows ofr various customisations.
As per the Bluesky blog post, “Instead of one site running the network, you can have many sites. It means you get a choice of provider, and individuals and businesses can self-host if they want.”
How Popular Is Bluesky?
According to Forbes magazine, citing data from Data.ai, the Bluesky app has been downloaded 360,0000 times and is currently ahead of some of the popular platforms such as LinkedIn, Bing and Zoom in the Apple App Store ranking.
The company itself informed Bloomberg News that it has over 40,000 users. The company began to sign up users on the wait-list early this year and announced its biggest single-day jump last week.
The hype over Bluesky came as Dorsey used the platform to say that he no longer thought that Musk was the right leader for Twitter, the site he co-created in 2006.
How To Get A Bluesky Social Invite Code?
There are only two ways to get into Bluesky. The first is the easiest, but also takes the longest. That would be to signing up on the Bluesky’s website.
Step 1: Visit the website for Bluesky’s invite only beta.
Step 2: Type a valid email address into the text box and click ‘Join Waitlist’
Step 3: Now wait and keep checking your inbox until an invite shows up.
The other way to get in is to know someone who is already using Bluesky. As existing users get one code per week to share with anyone they wish too.