TechScape: Threads and Bluesky need to figure out what they want to be
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6FMQP)
In this week's newsletter: The Twitter alternatives are gaining ground, and it wouldn't take much to steal X's crown as a news-sharing service
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Every time Elon Musk does something bad, you can see an influx of new users to Bluesky - one of the many social media sites to pop up as a potential Twitter/X alternative.
The 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.
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