On Saturday, Bluesky saw a record-breaking number of visitors to its site following Elon Musk's announcement of a daily post limit on Twitter. The platform, which is co-founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is still in the testing phase and was forced to temporarily shut down registrations to deal with all the extra traffic.
After Twitter's executive chairman and CTO Elon Musk announced a temporary limit on the amount of posts users can view per day due to "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation," Twitter competitor Bluesky reported record-high traffic. Musk changed the limits several times on Saturday, with verified accounts able to view 10,000 posts, unverified accounts up to 1,000, and new unverified accounts seeing a cap of 500 posts. Users reported seeing a "Rate limit exceeded" error message when they reached their limit.
As a result, many have been turning to Bluesky, the text-based social media platform incubated by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2019. On Saturday, Bluesky acknowledged the surge in visitors and said it had to temporarily pause sign-ups to address performance issues. By Sunday, the platform had resumed sign-ups.
As Bluesky grows, it is not the only competitor to Twitter. The decentralized messaging app Mastodon recently gained attention, and social media giant Meta is reportedly exploring a standalone decentralized social network. Meta may be nearing its launch as a Twitter competitor, called Threads, was briefly visible on the Google Play store, according to The Verge. CNBC's request for comment from Twitter and Meta went unanswered.
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