New Delhi: Bluesky is finally having its moment as millions of users flock to the platform of its biggest rival X formerly Twitter, and sees an increasing in user posts after Donald Trump’s win. However, with the increased attention, it seems that there are some troubles brewing for the platform as well. The outage tracking website downdetecter reported the thousands of users were having trouble in accessing the platform on November 14 and 15. While the company complete is yet to officially confirm the outage,, it seems the worst may be already over as downdetecter data shows outage of report.
Bluesky is a decentralized social network that gained fame after being backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. However, Dorsey called it quits with the company earlier this year stating that he was making some of the same mistakes that he did with Twitter. Bluesky along with Meta’s Threads is amongst the handful of platforms that have gained traction after the growing disenchantment with Twitter, ever since Elon Musk took over the platform.
Bluesky has a similar interface to X/twitter with a discover menu but the Feeds option allows the user to curate the algorithm towards their interest areas. The company has seen the 2.5 million new users in the last weeks and has crossed over 16 million users mark. However, the bluesky continues to fall far behind either X or Threads, according to sensor the tower data quotes by Reuters, Threads has over 252 million monthly active users while X has around 317 Million.
X recently brought in changes to its terms of service policy which states the users agree that their content on the platform will now be used to train the artificial intelligence models like Grok. Moreover, any disputes with the company can only be brought exclusively in the U.S. district court for the Nothern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant Country, Texas, United States.
Meanwhile, there have also been concerns about Musk’s support for Donald Trump in the U.S presidential elections and the platform’s supposed inability to control misinformation. Over 1,15,000 users have deactivated X after the 2024 US elections were announced, as per similar Web Data quoted by Reuters. Among the several prominent personalities and brands that have decided to leave the platform include James Lee Curtis, Don Lemon, Elton John, Mia Farrow, Whoopi Goldberg, and the British publication The Guardia.
