{"id":11877,"date":"2023-10-17T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:37:25","slug":"threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads and Bluesky need to figure out what they want to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter alternatives are gaining ground, and it wouldn\u2019t take much to steal X\u2019s crown as a news-sharing service<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every time Elon Musk does something bad, you can see an influx of new users to Bluesky \u2013 one of the many social media sites to pop up as a potential Twitter\/X alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The platform, still invite-only, has more than 1.5 million users but it is slowly growing. A website <a href=\"https:\/\/twexit.nl\/statistics\">called Twexit<\/a>, which tracks the exodus of users from Twitter to Bluesky, has noted spikes of people activating their invite codes in the past couple of months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/17\/threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/867d786ca5c59d9a8e849f75d4f0518a51d11106\/0_396_6048_3628\/master\/6048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b1f89776fed7a2682bb1e6bdc82100a\" title=\"Threads and Bluesky need to figure out what they want to be\" \/>The Twitter alternatives are gaining ground, and it wouldn\u2019t take much to steal X\u2019s crown as a news-sharing service<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\nEvery time Elon Musk does something bad, you can see an influx of new users to Bluesky \u2013 one of the many social media sites to pop up as a potential Twitter\/X alternative.<br \/>\nThe platform, still invite-only, has more than 1.5 million users but it is slowly growing. A website called Twexit, which tracks the exodus of users from Twitter to Bluesky, has noted spikes of people activating their invite codes in the past couple of months. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter alternatives are gaining ground, and it wouldn\u2019t take much to steal X\u2019s crown as a news-sharing service \u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here Every time Elon Musk does something bad, you can see an influx of new users to Bluesky \u2013 one of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/threads-and-bluesky-need-to-figure-out-what-they-want-to-be\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threads and Bluesky need to figure out what they want to be<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}