BlueSky coming to compete with Twitter? What is Blue Sky and how does it work?

Recently, after the complete takeover of Twitter by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, there has been turmoil on the platform. At present, Musk is the CEO of Twitter and till now has made many changes in Twitter. Users have to pay for many services including Blue Tick. Meanwhile, news is coming that Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey has launched Blue Sky, a new platform similar to Twitter, which can compete with it. Let us know what is the new platform Blue Sky, who started it and how users can create an account on it?

WHAT IS BLUESKY?

Blue Sky is a text-based social media platform, which was launched in February this year. It is also being called Blue Sky Social. According to the Reuters report, there is no support for video and direct message (DM) on this platform yet. It works on a de-centralized framework similar to the social network Mastodon.

At present, only the beta version of Blue Sky is available in the market, on which an invite code is required to create an account.

IS THE BLUESKY PLATFORM THE SAME AS TWITTER? 

Talking about the user interface of Bluesky, it is very similar to Twitter for the users. On this, users can create their profile and post photos with short messages. It allows users to write up to 300 characters of text.

Talking about its timeline, it has a "What's hot" and "Following" feed, similar to Twitter's "For You" and "Following" feeds.

Apart from this, unlike Twitter, BlueSky's core framework allows for all kinds of customizations.

In October it said in a blog post that instead of one site running the network, you can have multiple sites. This means that you get the options of Providers, Individuals and Businesses.

WHO STARTED BLUESKY AND WHO OWNS IT?

According to a Reuters report, the BlueSky platform was started by Jack Dorsey in the year 2019 as a project inside Twitter. After this, in 2022 it was established as an independent company. By April 2022, Blue Sky had raised $13 million from Twitter.

Let us tell you that the board members of Blue Sky include Jack Dorsey, Jeremy Miller and its CEO is Jay Graber.

In December 2019, Jack Dorsey said in his tweet on the launch of Blue Sky that his new target is to make Twitter its client.

HOW MANY USERS ARE CURRENTLY ON BLUESKY?

Not many users have come on this platform yet. One reason for this can also be that an invite code is required to create a profile on it.

According to Bloomberg 's report, CEO Jay Graber told that at present, more than 40 thousand people are taking services on Blue Sky, but the number of people who want to come on it is much more.

According to analytics company Data.ai, Bluesky's iPhone app has been downloaded nearly 360,000 times. In addition, Bluesky has also recently launched an Android app, which is available on Google Play in the US, UK and Japan.

Users who use Bluesky include politicians, celebrities and entrepreneurs. According to Bloomberg's report, American filmmaker James Gunn has already become an active member, who has more than 2,400 followers. Apart from this, on Friday, April 28, American model and TV actress Chrissy Teigen shared the link of her BlueSky account on Twitter.

HOW TO GET INVITE CODE TO CREATE ACCOUNT ON BLUESKY?

At present, account can be created on BlueSky only through invite code. Users will have to add their name to the waiting list to get the invite code. To add a name to the list, one has to sign up on the Bluesky app or website. Let us know that you will not get the invite code immediately after signing up, while the name will be added to the waiting list.