Bluesky said it experienced 'record-high traffic' after Elon Musk said Twitter will temporarily limit the number of posts users can read per day.
that verified accounts could view 10,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts could view 1,000 and new unverified accounts could view 500. Users report seeing a "Rate limit exceeded" error message when they have viewed their allotted number of posts.
As a result, people have been turning to Bluesky, an emerging text-based social media site backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. Bluesky is still in an invite-only beta phase, and the company said in a post Saturday that its systems were experiencing "some degraded performance as a result of record-high traffic." The platform also had to temporarily pause sign-ups to address performance issues, but it resumed sign-ups late Sunday.
A Bluesky representative told CNBC in an email that more than 58,000 people signed up for Bluesky over the weekend. That's compared to the platform's 50,000 total users at the end of April, according to its"We still require an invite code to create an account, but this weekend set new records for us in terms of how many accounts were created in a single day and how much traffic we had," the representative said.
was still CEO. The app runs on a decentralized networking technology called the AT Protocol, which in theory could power future social apps, enabling people to maintain their identities across multiple platforms.
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