Twitter faces an outage as Jack Dorsey launches its decentralised alternative, Bluesky. The social media platform faced this problem on 1st March as many users started pointing out problems with Elon Musk’s platform. Bluesky is currently in beta testing and could be the one to replace Twitter. However, the huge user base of the social media platform makes it challenging.
Twitter goes down as an alternative surface.
Downdetector, a platform that gives live status updates of websites and applications, recently shared user issues with Twitter. The first report came around 9 am UTC and lasted about 5 hours. About 3/5th of the total reports were from mobile users, and the remaining was from the website. Twitter is yet to issue any statement for the same. However, we know that the main problems were the “Following” and “For you” feed not showing any tweets or content.
Could this be because the current employee count isn’t enough to manage the social media platform properly? Reports suggest that Elon Musk fired 200 more employees during the weekend. And since his takeover, the total employee count has been reduced from 7,500 to a mere 2,000. The ones that were let go this week were engineers, data scientists and product managers.
It is difficult to understand this because Twitter has been working on multiple cryptocurrency-related features. They also recently introduced the price search feature for crypto, which supported about 30 tokens.
Bluesky, Twitter’s decentralised alternative
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, has been working to build a decentralised alternative to Twitter. This week the application has gone for beta testing, and only selected users via the invite link can access it for now. Cointelegraph reports that about 2000 users have downloaded the application since its arrival on the app store on 17th February. It is also not available on android right now.
There is another alternative to Twitter besides Bluesky that also launched in 2023, called Damus. It is a messaging service built on the decentralised network Nostr.
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