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X-Alternative Bluesky now has four million users
Anyone interested can now register with the Bluesky short message service, an alternative to Twitter’s successor X. photo
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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, interest in alternatives has increased. Bluesky now has four million users. There is a Twitter co-founder behind the short message service.
The service is designed as a decentralized alternative to X – a platform on which many interconnected online networks can exist. The project was started in 2019 by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, when he was still head of the most famous short message service.
After the controversial tech billionaire Musk took over Twitter, interest in alternatives increased. The entrepreneur represents positions of the American right and also caused a shift to the right on the platform, which has now been renamed X. The rival service Threads from the Facebook group Meta has established itself as the strongest competition so far, with 130 million monthly active users.
Twitter and X have not provided any regular information on user numbers since the takeover. The company boss appointed by Musk, Linda Yaccarino, simply wrote about this in a blog post at the end of October: “More than half a billion of the best-informed and most influential people in the world come to X every month.”