Post by account_disabled on Sept 12, 2023 13:54:07 GMT 5.5
It started with Twitter, or rather Elon Musk. After acquiring Twitter in October 2022, Musk fired half of the workforce overnight. The quality of service declined sharply, and various policies and rules continued to change, causing confusion to users.
Famous third-party apps Phone Number List that had coexisted with the Twitter platform for more than 10 years, such as Tweetlogics and Tweetbot, suddenly refused to provide third-party APIs and stopped serving their services overnight.
In this way, Twitter under Musk's regime announced paid plans and various new features while calling for normalization of profits, but on the other hand, it is being evaluated as difficult to trust due to inconsistent policies.
TweetLogics announced earlier this year that it would end its 12-year run of third-party Twitter apps. ⓒ Tweetlogix
Twitter's crisis is an opportunity for other social networking apps. Former CEO Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter 15 years ago, now runs another short messaging networking app called Blue Sky. Blue Sky has been operating in beta version since the end of 2022. It is a service that adds advantages while maintaining its identity as a short message app, but it is not easy to sign up for, so many people are curious about it.
Perhaps the person who welcomed Musk's mistake the most was Meta CEO Zuckerberg? In addition to Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were acquired, but there was not as much synergy as initially expected. They focused on Metaverse and even changed their company name, but it wasn't much fun, and they fell behind in the recent AI competition. Operating losses and sales continued to decline, and in February 2023, large-scale layoffs were announced with the goal of a 'Year of Efficiency'.
Various social networking apps ⓒ ITWorld
However, Threads, which was announced last Thursday as a text-based conversation app within the Instagram ecosystem, saw explosive sign-up rates. On the day of the announcement alone, 30 million people signed up, and over 70 million people signed up over the weekend, and it immediately became the app with 100 million people signing up in the shortest amount of time. If it establishes its initial identity well and lives up to expectations, it has the potential to become a ‘text version of Instagram.’
We summarized the first impressions we received while using the two popular apps that are widely rumored, Blue Sky and Thread, as well as the unique features and things to know about each app.
Bluesky Social, a quiet garden only for those invited
ⓒ Bluesky Social
Twitter users suffering from Musk's erratic and unreasonable management currently have two alternatives. One is Mastodon, a decentralized social network, and the other is Bluescar, which has a similar identity to Twitter.
Mastodon is not a platform operated by one company for commercial purposes, but a network-like service with thousands of independent servers/instances loosely connected. After using it myself, Blue Sky was like an island between Twitter and Mastodon.
One day three weeks ago, an invitation to Blue Sky arrived. When he heard that the former Twitter CEO was working on a new social network app, he just put his name on the waiting list. It turned out that it was operating in a beta state, with one new invitation code issued every two weeks to existing users. When I tried to sign up after saving the invitation code, a message appeared saying that new signups were temporarily on hold. As it turns out, subscribers flocked to Blue Sky right after Twitter made TweetDeck payable and limited daily API requests for general users to 600, preventing the timeline from being updated beyond a certain amount.
About two days later, Blue Sky began accepting sign-ups again. The default account name is “@id.bsky.social”. When you use an invitation code, a sign-up notification is sent to the person you invited, and the inviter's account is also notified to the person who is at a loss as to which account to follow. I feel like a guarantor and first friend.
Famous third-party apps Phone Number List that had coexisted with the Twitter platform for more than 10 years, such as Tweetlogics and Tweetbot, suddenly refused to provide third-party APIs and stopped serving their services overnight.
In this way, Twitter under Musk's regime announced paid plans and various new features while calling for normalization of profits, but on the other hand, it is being evaluated as difficult to trust due to inconsistent policies.
TweetLogics announced earlier this year that it would end its 12-year run of third-party Twitter apps. ⓒ Tweetlogix
Twitter's crisis is an opportunity for other social networking apps. Former CEO Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter 15 years ago, now runs another short messaging networking app called Blue Sky. Blue Sky has been operating in beta version since the end of 2022. It is a service that adds advantages while maintaining its identity as a short message app, but it is not easy to sign up for, so many people are curious about it.
Perhaps the person who welcomed Musk's mistake the most was Meta CEO Zuckerberg? In addition to Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were acquired, but there was not as much synergy as initially expected. They focused on Metaverse and even changed their company name, but it wasn't much fun, and they fell behind in the recent AI competition. Operating losses and sales continued to decline, and in February 2023, large-scale layoffs were announced with the goal of a 'Year of Efficiency'.
Various social networking apps ⓒ ITWorld
However, Threads, which was announced last Thursday as a text-based conversation app within the Instagram ecosystem, saw explosive sign-up rates. On the day of the announcement alone, 30 million people signed up, and over 70 million people signed up over the weekend, and it immediately became the app with 100 million people signing up in the shortest amount of time. If it establishes its initial identity well and lives up to expectations, it has the potential to become a ‘text version of Instagram.’
We summarized the first impressions we received while using the two popular apps that are widely rumored, Blue Sky and Thread, as well as the unique features and things to know about each app.
Bluesky Social, a quiet garden only for those invited
ⓒ Bluesky Social
Twitter users suffering from Musk's erratic and unreasonable management currently have two alternatives. One is Mastodon, a decentralized social network, and the other is Bluescar, which has a similar identity to Twitter.
Mastodon is not a platform operated by one company for commercial purposes, but a network-like service with thousands of independent servers/instances loosely connected. After using it myself, Blue Sky was like an island between Twitter and Mastodon.
One day three weeks ago, an invitation to Blue Sky arrived. When he heard that the former Twitter CEO was working on a new social network app, he just put his name on the waiting list. It turned out that it was operating in a beta state, with one new invitation code issued every two weeks to existing users. When I tried to sign up after saving the invitation code, a message appeared saying that new signups were temporarily on hold. As it turns out, subscribers flocked to Blue Sky right after Twitter made TweetDeck payable and limited daily API requests for general users to 600, preventing the timeline from being updated beyond a certain amount.
About two days later, Blue Sky began accepting sign-ups again. The default account name is “@id.bsky.social”. When you use an invitation code, a sign-up notification is sent to the person you invited, and the inviter's account is also notified to the person who is at a loss as to which account to follow. I feel like a guarantor and first friend.