Twitter competitor Bluesky has announced that Twitter’s executive chairman and CTO Elon Musk will temporarily limit the number of posts users can view on the site each day. , said it experienced “record traffic” on Saturday.
Musk wrote in a tweet Verified, unverified, and new unverified accounts will be restricted on social media sites due to “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.” Mr. Musk changed the restrictions several times on Saturday. announce at some point Verified accounts can see 10,000 posts per day, unverified accounts can see 1,000, and new unverified accounts can see 500. Users have reported seeing the “Rate Limit Exceeded” error her message when viewing their allotted number of posts.
As a result, people turned to Bluesky, an emerging text-based social media site backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Bluesky is still in its invite-only beta stage, and the company said in a post on Saturday that its systems were experiencing “some performance degradation as a result of record traffic.” The platform also had to temporarily suspend signups to address performance issues.
Blue Sky resumed registration late Sunday.
Twitter responded to CNBC’s request for comment with an automated response. Mr. Brusky did not immediately react.
Bluesky was originally born within Twitter in 2019, when Dorsey was still CEO. The app runs on top of a decentralized network technology called the AT protocol and could theoretically power future social apps, allowing people to maintain their identity across multiple platforms.
Member of the Bluesky Project, February 2022 Created Bluesky Public Benefit LLC was formed with Jay Graber as CEO and Dorsey as one of the founding directors.company announced In April 2022, he said on Twitter that he had received $13 million in funding “to ensure the freedom and independence to start research and development.”
By the end of April this year, Bluesky had more than 50,000 users, according to the company. website.
Bluesky isn’t Twitter’s only upstart competitor.Decentralized messaging app Mastodon generated a lot of interest in his November, social media giant meta previously confirmed to CNBC that it is “considering a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates.”
Meta May Be Preparing For Launch Like The Verge reported on Saturday Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has briefly appeared on the Google Play store.
Mehta did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
—Jonathan Vanian of CNBC contributed to this report.