Jack Dorsey, the former Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has launched a new social media app days after the new CEO, Elon Musk removed the blue tick of many social media influencers.
The is also comes months after Dorsey quit the Board of Directors of the former microblogging platform.
Findings revealed that Dorsey’s new mobile application, Bluesky, is under development and only available for use through an invite code.
The alternative app promises to be a future-thinking “social internet” that allows users more choices and frees people from platforms.
New York Post disclosed in a publication that Dorsey began working on Bluesky as a side project in 2019 with funding from Twitter.
Many users of Bluesky say the app’s current beta version is similar to a pared-down copy of Twitter, Tech Crunch said.
The demand for the exclusive app has been growing as the platform has already grown up to 20,000 users even in its development form.
Reports say Dorsey and his developers hope to give users “algorithmic choice,” allowing them to choose how content is fed onto their screens instead of a one-fits-all algorithm controlled by the app developers.
Dorsey’s new app is gaining more user demand hours after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk, removed blue ticks from multiple accounts.
The microblogging platform Thursday, April 20, 2023, removed the verification badges of many notable persons worldwide, including Nigeria’s president-elect and flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar.
The mass removal of the blue tick, which affected Tinubu, Atiku, also affected the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and reporters/journalists, celebrities and others in Nigeria.
A check on the handles of these political figures shows that the verification badges have disappeared.
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